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Cites mcarvin · 2013-10 · on “The growing irrelevance of Google Search”

The OP is stating a truism that I agree with (true with all truisms). Google is your default search engine for any query where (you believe) Google offers the highest probability of delivering the intended content/ answer. So any product, in any vertical, that can respond to a query with greater utility than google - and condition it's userbase that that is the case - has the potential to supplant google for those queries. Great example is the drift of search traffic for flight travel on google to direct traffic to sites like kayak and expedia. (another example is the shift of people search). The challenge of competing against kayak-like companies that offer great products in specific vertic

Cites kkoncevicius · 2023-01 · on “Ask HN: Why is Google freaking out about ChatGPT”

This snippet from an old interview seems to be relevant: [this video] In words: Schmidt here is saying that Google returning lots of pages is a "bug" and the future of search is understanding what the user wants and providing a single best answer.

Cites yusufnb · 2023-01 · on “Gmail creator says ChatGPT will destroy Google's business in two years”

Here's an old video where Eric Schmidt mentions Google's goal of being like ChatGPT (in a way) - [this video] Google changed its course along the way!

Critical verisimi · 2022-09 · on “Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says”

The message is that you cannot verify what you are told, you just get what you're given. And what part you are given is an illusion that there are more results. Just trust Google.... what could go wrong? Let's not forget, that Eric Schmidt said that more than 1 result is a bug. [this video] This touches on the scope and hubris of Google and other companies that mediate reality for us. They think they have 'the truth', they know it and will give it to us, and if we refuse their truth, they will attempt to train us until we get it, in schools, the workplace, online, etc. It's also why they will become irrelevant. If there is nothing organic about their results because the algo filters thoughtcrime

Critical verisimi · 2022-09 · on “Google Broke Image Search for Creative Commons”

Google fu? You are actually trying to hack Google in an unauthorised way. 'More than 1 result is a bug, citizen.' [this video]

Critical verisimi · 2022-10 · on “Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served”

Isn't it great that google has got rid of so many bugs? After all, more than 1 result is a bug: [this video]

Critical verisimi · 2022-11 · on “YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/newest” option”

I really think people have missed the point of Google and this sort of change. They are about constraining and managing what you can think. Don't believe me? Hear it in Schmidt's own words: [this video] (30 sec clip) "When you use google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world because we should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant you should look for information and we should give it exactly right and we should give it to you in your language and we should never be wrong." Google see themselves as custodians of truth. They know the truth, and it is their job to give it to you. Now yo

Critical verisimi · 2025-09 · on “Age verification doesn’t work”

> And it will outright prohibit young people from getting information from non-permitted sources (of course, legacy sources are not affected - incidentally, they're probably more harmful than the prohibited sources). Verification is the stick, AI is the carrot. More than one answer is a bug - Eric Schmidt [this video]