1y ago

Google Search’s New AI Overviews Will Soon Have Ads

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Not if I completely stop using Google search.
Why is Google determined to kill one of its cash cows? Cramming AI into search results feels like “New Coke”.
- There's been ads in Google for over a decade now.
  
  Google started introducing advertisements into its search engine in the year 2000. This was through the launch of the Google AdWords program.
- Google doesn’t have a choice. Consider how few in the younger audience actually use proper search engines. Heaven forbid, they ask their questions on TikTok. It’s a mighty gamble but without a doubt hesitation is failure now that AI is yet another competitor eating up the search space.
  
  This is one thing I would love to actually see some data about, because I have never seen people not using search engines, no matter the age, but I see a lot of people on the internet claiming that younger people don't use search engines anymore.
  
  I've seen this mentioned a few times before but never get how it works. How do you even use TikTok as a search engine?
So you need an ad blocker for that, too?
- Yes ublock origin can do that with simple script
  
  The only scripts I've seen still leave a giant empty box at the top... Are there any that fix this too?
- No because you will be using duckduckgo or something else
Will they be AI ads
Of course it will.
Non-paywall version: https://archive.ph/bsSon

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