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Calishat

#Google #SearchEngines #WebSearch #hubris

"A new profile of Elizabeth Reid, the head of Google Search, confirms that Google is moving away from its longstanding model of sending its users to websites. As one former unnamed senior executive put it: 'Giving traffic to publisher sites is kind of a necessary evil.'"

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Search Engine Land · Ex-Google exec: Giving traffic to publishers 'a necessary evil'In a newly published profile, Google's Head of Search Elizabeth Reid also said the Google search bar will become less prominent over time.
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Little Black Book: Burger King Takes over Google Maps to Hand Out Discounts at Rival Restaurants. “On March 15, during Consumer Week, Burger King® launched an unexpected stunt: the brand distributed exclusive discount coupons in a hyper-targeted, geolocated way, strategically placed in search results for competitor locations on Google Maps. Photos were taken and posted locally on the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/26/little-black-book-burger-king-takes-over-google-maps-to-hand-out-discounts-at-rival-restaurants/

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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

New York Times: Inside Google’s Investment in the A.I. Start-Up Anthropic. This link goes to a gift article. “To win the artificial intelligence race, Google not only has developed its own technologies, but has also pumped money into prominent A.I. start-ups. And to preserve its competitive edge, Google has kept its ownership stakes in those start-ups a secret. Court documents recently […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/26/new-york-times-inside-googles-investment-in-the-a-i-start-up-anthropic/

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Arunmozhi

#Google #Gemini #Android #Rant

Looks like Google force pushed an Gemini integration into Android devices.

Now my mom is confused why everything she does suddenly pops up "G-e-m-i-n-i" in her phone. She is utterly confused why simple button presses and taps are now making her device show this thing randomly, preventing her from doing what she wants to do.

If I ever meet one of these unhinged morons at google who did this to her, you are getting an earful at the least. Do you know how hard it is for people whose functional language is NOT English learning to use a smart phone in their 50s and 60s and then keep up with the constant barrage of "UI/UX improvements" you throw at them every other year? Do you have any idea how your freaking AI integration is going to impact someone who sends voice notes because typing is too hard? Do you think every user who "paid" for the device they bought are feeding you their entire digital lives for free are also lab rats for your whims and fancies? Like, the gall of fucking with people's everyday things for metrics.

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Tim 🎮

#Google Keep just ate today's todo list. It had a lot of things on it.

It was a new note I created, filled out, and then went to add to my phone's home screen as a widget. It wasn't in the list, so I figured I needed to reboot my phone for something internal to refresh.

It looks like that refresh was needed not only to make the note available as a widget, but also to sync it to the cloud to save it at all, because after restarting my phone that list is gone.

Anyway, todo v2 is in Obsidian.

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Alexey Skobkin

Я тут немного гонял Gemma 3.

В @ollama с ней сейчас некоторые проблемы с памятью поэтому 27B версию нормально трогать не получается.

Ну, когда есть версия 27B как-то не очень хочется гонять 12B версию и поэтому я её почти не трогал и ждал когда починят менеджмент памяти.

Но тут я случайно вспомнил что Gemma 3 - мультимодалка. И решил попробовать посмотреть что там как с пониманием картинок.

До этого я уже баловался со всякими LLaVA, которая мне откровенно не понравилась, а также с LLaMA 3.2, которая была заметно лучше, но всё равно была не очень надежной.

А вот Gemma 3 меня прямо удивила.
Она мне тут и кошку в темноте нашла, и моток филамента объяснила даже уточнив, что тот лежит на коврике для мыши хотя этого коврика там лишь кусок в углу фото.

А тут она мне ещё и состав моей стойки расписала вплоть до того, что угадала аудио-интерфейс, что в него включён микрофон (его нет на фото) и что это домашняя студия.

Сильнее она удивила бы меня разве что если бы посчитала по торчащему в розетке ваттметру потребление и сделала вывод, что на сервере с фото она и работает, лол.

Короче, я впечатлён. Google молодцы.

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