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- I've tried to switch to Duck Duck Go unsuccessfully three times since its inception.
This time I have had no problem switching. I'm using Duck for 99% of anything I search for and it's just fine.
The 1% of the time, if I'm really stuck on something I try google shopping or images and its usually no better.
I realized quickly that google search was giving me a very distorted view in its search results, it is making a lot of specific editorial decisions that I wasn't quite aware of, or had lots awareness of over time.
Duck.ai is pretty good too. It's been nice to be able to finally switch, and it'll be interesting to see what happens with duckduckgo now that they can truly see some sustained growth (I can't be alone in this experience).
- am i remembering correctly that "google cloud" in the earnings isn't just developer's google cloud bills (that's google cloud platform), it's also basically any product where a consumer or enterprise pays money to google for anything other than advertising - google drive storage, gemini pro, enterprise google workspace plans...by notatoad
- I'm wondering who published "Attention is All You Need" and brought this devastation to Google... Oh I remember, it was Google.by pmkary
- Google purposely killing the golden goose by forcing all of its users to use the AI overview is a bold strategy.by wnevets
- Pre-AI, we used to spend upwards of $60K a year on Google Ads to keep our inbound pipeline running.
In the post-AI world, that spend dropped to $0. Not because Google Search suddenly stopped working, but because our segment (low-code platforms) was one of those that AI was going to disrupt significantly. We had to rethink and adapt our offering to the AI world before doubling down on marketing.
Now that we’ve repositioned and adapted our product, our marketing team has started experimenting with OpenAI as a channel, but we haven’t switched Google Ads back on.
There’s also something I find interesting about this shift. Google Ads always felt a bit like a mafia tax. When we stopped paying, our organic traffic seemed to take a disproportionate hit too. We could never quite figure out why. Maybe it was coincidence, maybe something else, but it left us questioning how independent organic search traffic really was from paid search.
by kinj28 - A few days ago a Google found me something I was searching for, but via ads and not search. In the middle of searching raw part numbers, the ad became 100% relevant. It was a weird experience clicking on the ad; something I never ever do. So maybe this is a bit of good news? Yardinflatables.com if you're curious.by 1970-01-01
- Somewhat impressive that search share of revenue is 5% down, but search revenue is 12% up..
- I get what they're trying to say, but it still seems a bit unconventional to have a line chart where the y-axis is a share percentage.
Here's a graph with revenue in dollars by segment:
by jonas21