I don't think the drop is related to Bard making an error. It is due to the rise of chat based search (as shown in Bing demo by Microsoft). In the chat based search, there will be less ads being displayed. Ad revenue forms the bulk of Google revenue.

Chat based just means the ads will be more insidious.

User: Bing, how do I make a cake?

Bing: Start with 2 cups flour - be sure to use King Arthur premium baking flour for a proper batter - then get 1 cup sugar...

I didn’t think about that angle for advertising, but it’s somewhat terrifying. Imagine being able to pay more to have your “company friendly” dataset prioritized in upcoming LLM training sets.

Man, that's already how a decent percent of recipes work. They come off cans and exist in part to sell products.

While somewhat true, the capability is there to make this much more pervasive and subtle. Any recipe mentioning tequila can instantly become <insert brand> tequila.

Also don't limit your imagination to recipes. People googling car check engine codes will be recommended <paid advertiser> parts from <paid advertiser> websites which can helpfully be installed by <paid service center> nearby. I fear searching is going to get much uglier/noisier than it already is.

> there will be less ads being displayed

The top minds of the world are working on delivering you ads, I wouldn't be so sure

That is an educational course. I am looking for code templates.

Best of luck with TaskZen.

How is your service going to be different from existing file conversion services like zamzar.com, convertfiles.com etc ?

Thanks for asking. The main difference is focus on depth instead of breadth - thus instead of multitude of possible output formats support only few (PDF/HTML/TXT/IMG), but with some added features. Just few examples: - bulk search and autoredactions (marking / blacking out parts of documents that match certain queries) - signature and handwriting detection - tokenization (for TXT output) - language detection (for TXT/PDF output) - named entity detection (for TXT/PDF output)

Potential customers are people developing systems for GDPR (data protection), fraud detection, eDiscovery and content management.

If you are doing some kind of intense annotation probably your most important thing is having an output format that supports the annotation you want to do -- not necessarily supporting any.

I have been thinking about universal annotation and the formats that I find the most interesting are PDF (because so much content exists in PDF) and HTML (open, easy to work with.)

You are absolutely right - we are thinking along the same lines. The only reason why we are offering TXT/IMG as output formats next to PDF/HTML is the fact that some people will have their own composite document formats and they can build those out of TXT/IMG.

A search feature for expired domains would be useful.

Google Finance aggregates news, blogs etc from different sources too. How is the site going to make money ?

There are quite a few meetups/conferences in Delhi - Proto.in, barcampdelhi.com , tienewdelhi.org etc

I would recommend Wells Trade. If you have more than 25K to invest, then you get 100 free trades. Very good customer service

Is there any Startup dinners in Boston area ?

Now is a bad time to switch careers into SAP consulting. Due to credit crisis, companies are postponing/canceling SAP related projects. So demand for SAP consultants (and consulting rates) are down. Most of consulting companies in North East have lot of ERP people on bench.

As supply chain functional consultant, there is very little coding.

Thanks dude