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I miss the days of Ask Jeeves.
I miss the days when the SEO bots weren't winning.
The ruling is flawed, searching the Internet has been an "AI" battle for 20 years using the predecessors of LLMs to sort out "what people really want" vs the websites that are precision honed to receive as many top-ranking search result returns as possible. Then, of course, Google forgot the n't in "At least don't be Evil." and they started pushing promoted (aka paying customers') results higher in the rankings.
If you simply unplug Gemini, what replaces it? Is Hadoop "too smart" for the ruling? Multiple cross references of content and links and what all else proprietary algorithms the Google goblins cooked up over the last 20 years, at what point is that AI/not AI? If Gemini gets repackaged as "totally not AI tech" - does that make it now legal?
People do need to curb their enthusiasm, on both sides of the AI questions. It's a tool, it's not perfect for everything, it is good for some things, better than the best of what came before - for some things.