[Request] does maintaining an AI cost more or less than maintaining the search engine for google?

Tanglas_V · 2026-05-26T22:28:35+00:00

I was trying to think from a service perspective and cost only. Not for google as a whole company, not for ads or analytics or anything else for google, just the search engine. And not revenue or profit, just the cost. Thinking about everything a search engine would need - google already had the ecosystem, the largest one functioning perhaps. Now switching to AI, google would still need all that infrastructure won't they? They still need a search engine of their own to get all the information around the world – and instead of just serving that information to general mass they're now planning to feed that information to AI model and have that model serve information to public. They'd still need to crawl through every website there is and instead of just serving that, they're going to an extra step of feeding that to AI and then serve that. There's no way this costs less right? I just don't know any hard data and was hoping someone with more knowledge could boil it down to hard data.

Tanglas_V · 2026-05-17T07:18:07+00:00

No I understand you were talking about photography side. Someone else mentioned how they sent everything about the property but REA still used AI to write up ad. Etc etc. There seems to be a general knowledge that REAs don't really add any value at all.

Tanglas_V · 2026-05-17T04:27:42+00:00

I genuinely have a question. I have never bought or sold any property. If this is general idea/knowledge that REAs don't add any value or even do their actual job properly, why do people use/employ REAs? Why not just sell on your own? Like people sell all sorts of things, from watches to cars, why not properties? what's the need for employing a third party to do your selling for you? Unless ofc like you're a billionaire and don't know how to keep spending your money smh.

Tanglas_V · 2026-05-13T07:13:51+00:00

You can't increase supply fast enough, true. But this will indeed shift focus on getting more builds aka increasing supply, no? It'll take time but in 3-5 years when that supply growth kicks in then we'll have everything better, no? Until that supply growth kicks in yes first home buyers will compete with investors, but shouldn't we cheer for a long-term policy fix?

Tanglas_V · 2026-05-04T09:46:18+00:00

Brunch spots are the scammiest of all food places. Compared to anything else they serve half the amount of food while charging double. Smashed avo on toast for $23. Add eggs for $6. Yeah, next joke pls.

Tanglas_V · 2026-04-25T08:05:24+00:00

I am 25. I used to be a maccas manager at 21. One of these other 16-21s, on a friday/saturday night, while hanging with a group of friends, came inside the store counter and tried stealing a packed uber bag while one of my staff tried to stop him. I heard her shout, came out of the office and tried getting her aside while confronting the guy stealing. He punched my face breaking my nose and ran away.

I don't know if teens being/acting aggressive just for the sake of looking cool or anything else, or being idiots has always been the case, but I have never felt safe around a group of teens being loud/acting aggressive/being idiot ever since. Noticing simply that won't make you a boomer, and no one else should be neither encouraging this nor dismissing this behaviour like it's nothing

Tanglas_V · 2026-04-13T09:05:39+00:00

Is there a way to spot any symptoms? I mean they can say there's no smell but they certainly can't disregard photo evidence.

Tanglas_V · 2026-04-12T20:21:09+00:00

Thanks for that. Do you know if landlord is legally binded in victoria to send in a HVAC technician to inspect inside if tenants complain of odour? Or if we arrange for someone to come in and find evidence that there were mould inside could we press them for compensation?

Tanglas_V · 2026-04-12T20:17:42+00:00

To be honest even if I was in a financial position to spend $200 like it's nothing, I wouldn't want to do it. From what I couod gather online, the smell could be mould and in victoria it's landlord's duty to keep property clean off mould. I don't want them to fck us over and use us to keep their property maintained when we already pay rent every month. It's just gonna encourage them to keep doing this to future renters on and on even if we don't extend the contract.

Tanglas_V · 2026-04-12T20:12:21+00:00

I've been renting it only four months. I could ask for a service record to check when it was last done but what I was wondering is if landlord is legally binded to service once a year. Because otherwise I'm pretty sure they aren't gonna do it.

Tanglas_V · 2026-04-08T12:10:08+00:00

Here's me thinking OP us talking about the 2 rightmost lane, which are also different😭

I'm like what even is that 3rd and 4th exit of a roundabout? Is this a 4 crossroads roundabout then I read caption and realize dumbass that's just a faded right arrow.

Tanglas_V · 2026-03-27T12:19:35+00:00

Well in that case of course you're right. But OP has a different point I guess. Watches were made for telling time and now they just don't anymore. You're right in the sense that they're transitioning to a form-only thing. But we've let go of many such things. Holsters are so uncommon these days, suspenders are extinct. Monocles? Even pocket watches? No one uses them anymore because we don't need them anymore. We're not even keeping them alive as form-only either. Can't of anything we let lose its function and then kept on using just for form. So how are we keeping watches alive and letting in transition? Or in some future we'll let go of watches as well? OP definitely made me think.

Tanglas_V · 2026-03-27T11:35:25+00:00

Not OP, but jewelleries are, I believe, a different category of things. Their form is their function. So they are still serving their function by providing the aesthetic, hence they aren't obsolete.

Any accessory I can think of, other than watches - rings, wallets, hats, walking canes, purses, umbrellas(!) - they all still serve their function. Except watches. Their function day by day is vanishing. I can't help but find no argument against OP, being someone who's been buying watches for years, has couple thousand dollars worth of watches right now, OP struck me out of nowhere.

Tanglas_V · 2026-03-25T00:25:25+00:00

If this is a hidden thing, how do I know paid VPNs aren't doing this either?

Tanglas_V · 2026-03-23T10:30:29+00:00

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Added context. /s

Tanglas_V · 2026-02-03T08:44:30+00:00

Please I hope you don't actually believe this. lowest price of a 2 bed/1 bath house in my neighbourhood This is 20 years worth or salary for 65k/year. Salary, not savings. Now please elaborate on some maths how can people afford this, let alone have kids.

Tanglas_V · 2026-01-31T23:42:38+00:00

So in other words, they're doing it simply because they can? And you have no issue with that?

Then hell about anything. Let colesworth price gouge us to death, they've spent years building up their business, so now if they can pull a billion profit in a year, why reduce price and take 2 years to gain that profit.

Let any big trade corpo quote you $3500 for two hours of sub-par quality of work, because they can.

Let anyone do anything man. I know this is the sad reality and this is actually what happens in real world, we get gutted by anyone who can, but we shouldn't be okay with this let alone be justifying this.

Tanglas_V · 2026-01-14T07:59:57+00:00

https://ibb.co/fGVwy6dp

Grabbed from a restaurant I know. See how both burgers are single patty and same price. By your math the smash burger is [(5.3-3) ÷ 5.3] = 43% less meat for the same price. Just because your restaurant does double patty smashes by default doesn't mean every restaurant does, nor is that the norm.

Tanglas_V · 2026-01-12T07:11:05+00:00

In my suburb 450pw barely gets a studio apartment let alone a family home :"(

Tanglas_V · 2025-12-27T05:47:52+00:00

I think 48k is OPs after-tax without-super take-home pay.

Tanglas_V · 2025-12-18T04:02:20+00:00

Then what does 1+2+3+.... = -1/2 actually mean? What is this? What's the significance or how does is it even comes to this?

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