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> Google's explanation, from Chris Phillips, its vice president for education, speaking to The New York Times, is that "Search and AI are deeply integrated," so one cannot be switched off without the other.

Reminds me of when a certain Redmond company tied its browser into every aspect of its OS to prevent decoupling. History rhymes.

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And it's so easy to see that it's bullshit. Just go to the web tab on Google search and there's the results without an AI overview. The search results still use conventional algorithms, the AI overview is an LLM interpretation of the search results, unless the query is so simple the small LLM can answer itself.

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