Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees
www.theverge.com
Engineering and Assistant teams were impacted too
      • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        Everything is replaceable if people want to. The problem is the inertia it takes to substitute it

        • lud@lemm.ee
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          10 months ago

          YouTube is really hard to replace without the money of a multi billion company.

          Video is hard and attracting creators is even harder.

          • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee
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            10 months ago

            So is a good search engine. As much as I love DuckDuckGo and daily drive it the results are much worse than google’s

            • lud@lemm.ee
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              10 months ago

              No, you can switch to a different search engine right now and the results will be perfectly fine. I use DDG exclusively.

              What video platform can you switch to that has even remotely close to the amount of content as YouTube? (Pornhub doesn’t count)

            • bramblepatchmystery@slrpnk.net
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              10 months ago

              The only benefit I get from google over ecosia or duckduckgo is I can’t call a company or view their menu immediately from the search page after looking them up.

    • narp@feddit.de
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      10 months ago

      Copilot/Bing Search might put a big dent in that in the future. People will just ask an AI instead of “googling”.