And if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. There's no way Google has 3 billion paid users for this product. That said, Google is currently expanding its Hyderabad office by a lot, and moving projects there, attempting to use the old globalist playbook by charging first world prices for third world labor costs. Seems unwise in the long run, given the recent geopolitical upheavals.
The whole point of business is to make something (software, widget, gizmo) for cheap and sell it for a higher price.
I have to imagine that their search revenue is declining with their search being nearly unusable these days, and with AI.
This is a great way to milk all their paying customers to bring those revenue numbers back up.
Pichai is seriously the worst CEO. I hope google gets their own Nadella soon so the once great company can actually innovate again like it used to.
