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Headline doesn't really line up with everything else going on that affects a trillion dollar company...

It is probably some combination of the SOTU address, continued macroeconomic headwinds, and the poor/slow reaction to ChatGPT/Microsoft partnership. The wrong answer probably has SO little to do with this.



so what did their competitors move in a similar time, if its generalized market anxiety? Hint: nowhere near as much, and microsoft is actually up.

Google is a trillion dollar company but a lot of their revenue depends on their dominance in search. Google is a search/ads company, and now feeling pressure from microsoft/openai for the first time in a long time, their proposed answer was not well received because it doesn't satisfy the fundamental requirements for search.




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