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it's. 2021 and some employees on Google's web search team go to their leadership with.
An idea having a chatbot that could answer some of users questions directly alongside the links.
Julia Love is a tech reporter at Bloomberg who covers Google and so is Davey Alba.
This was several months before the launch of the massively popular ChatGPT in late 2022.
So Google search was raking in billions of dollars for Alphabet, the parent company,
and engineers and leadership just didn't want to mess with that money making machine.
So when this group of employees present this proposal to use artificial intelligence to answer some of users search queries directly,
leadership shoots them down.
It was so taboo at that time to think about disrupting the way Doodle search worked.
Generative AI just hadn't had its moment yet.
The next year OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT and all of a sudden Google faced a reckoning it it can no longer just embrace the status quo.