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Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (17 children)

But don’t worry! Google’s AI summaries will soon have ads!

dear fuck, pasting ads onto the part of Google search that’s already known to be unreliable and annoying at best seems like a terrible idea. for a laugh, let’s see if there’s any justification for this awful shit in the linked citation

Ads have always been an important part of consumers’ information journeys.

oh these people are on the expensive drugs huh

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

dear fuck,

i saw this first and immediately guessed the poster correctly

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

me visually: morning meeting poker face, unfireably cheerful when called on

me internally: dear fuck,

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have long written those sort of internal business emails by first writing the "RIGHT THEN YOU FUCKER," version then euphemising it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

sometimes I even have to write/edit these outside of mail client, just in case

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

every time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Shout out to my senior teammate at Microsoft who sanitised my comments for external consumption.

We'd have a group chat with some folks from another team, they'd say something stupid, so I'd private message my teammate "jesus fucking christ what the fuck are they talking about I swear to god those fuckers don't read any docs we send them I'm going to print them out and staple them to their bloody foreheads" and he'd laugh and then post "Hey, thanks for your comments, we discussed this previously here [attachment], but we can go over it again on our Wednesday meeting, cheers".

I swear he was the only reason I wasn't fired and forcefully escorted out of that building.

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