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Google might make users pay for AI features in search results (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google might start charging for access to search results that use generative artificial intelligence tools. That's according to a new Financial Times report citing "three people with knowledge of [Google's] plans."

Charging for any part of the search engine at the core of its business would be a first for Google, which has funded its search product solely with ads since 2000. But it's far from the first time Google would charge for AI enhancements in general; the "AI Premium" tier of a Google One subscription costs $10 more per month than a standard "Premium" plan, for instance, while "Gemini Business" adds $20 a month to a standard Google Workspace subscription.

While those paid products offer access to Google's high-end "Gemini Advanced" AI model, Google also offers free access to its less performant, plain "Gemini" model without any kind of paid subscription.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This means we won’t be getting the results we already get.

Or we are going to get the results we got when google was good, but with money.

“We ruin results until payments improve.”

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully this will backfire and just push people to use alternative search engines. Unlike YouTube and other subscription services, Google Search doesn’t have any exclusive rights to content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It will. 5, maybe 8 years ago, google mighta gotten this one over on us, but it's way too late. I don't even trust google search results anymore, haven't used it to look up something in over a year. Maps, sure. Web search? Nahp.