Another example of how Google just doesn't make exciting technology anymore.
They still make exciting technology. Google's search is still far better than the competition . The Pixel computational photography app is cutting edge. Their translation and speech synthesis are great. They are still good at "organizing the world's information". They fail when they try to mimic their competitors. Their cloud services trail Amazon. Their hardware trails Apple. Their social media trails... everybody.…
Bing now gives me results from the customer intranets kind of like an improved version of the old Google Desktop Search.
Google has, despite us telling them again and again, "improved" search to the point where it can find thousands of pages that contains something somehow similar to what I searched for, yet completely irrelevant.
I.e. not worse than the competitors, just equally bad.
Except maybe Google fails in more spectacular ways on search thanks to AI: some of the irrelevant results feel uncanny, like: I can see how they got there, but seriously: it doesn't match what I searched for and it utterly irrelevant.