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745 Why Google’s AI Weakness Turned Out to Be a Strength

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Martin Peers @ The Information · 12/18/2025 20:00 EDT

Why Google’s AI Weakness Turned Out to Be a Strength

Sometimes people’s greatest weakness can be their biggest strength. And in AI, it is turning out that what we thought was a weakness for Google—the fact that it had both a search portal and an AI chatbot—is actually an advantage. People use search and AI chatbots interchangeably, to be sure, but it’s become clear through the course of this year that an AI chatbot is not a replacement for a search engine. Sometimes people want a very quick, simple answer that is best coming from a search engine, not a chatbo

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