Google AI

“it still tends to work your query into whatever results it got, which makes it downright dangerous for when people are doing searches on health-related information”

“It's surprisingly pretty good now. Sometimes I'll use Claude instead, but for little things I've been pretty happy with the quick result from Googling.”

“I also get ad-free on YouTube, a ton more storage, and it can access all my Google Drive files natively.”

“AI (even the cheap one Google serves) is pretty good for search or finding a concept I'm pretty sure exists”

“If you only ever need really basic information like keyboard shortcuts, then it's pretty good, and definitely faster.”

“most of the time it answers my question perfectly and I don't need to click through multiple results”

“I let Google AI see my fantasy football team on Sleeper and make recommendations. It is helpful because it sees everything about my team”

“But it's still frequently spouting as much made up shit as I expected from LLMs not doing their research a couple years ago.”

“it lies a lot, clips off important info, and generally goes off the rails if you do too many turns, but it's still very useful”

“Google Meets with live translation feature is a must-have for me, because I communicate with international clients almost everyday.”

“I find them perfectly usable now. I'll often open a tab, Google something, and just read the summary”

“The llm said people are lazy and I have autism because I couldn't identify or understand the stopping criteria used by my classmates.”

“the way Google has integrated Gemini Flash into search is actually pretty good and is definitely an improvement over Google Search 2.0”

“The AI summary is still useful for narrowing down the results, even if you fully check the citations.”

“Google's (cheap to run) AI is good enough now that I don't need to move over to ChatGPT for simple answers”

“It's just far easier to get a direct answer to what I'm looking for than going through mountains of SEO spam.”

“AI summaries of search results consistently return incorrect information and grossly oversimplified and thus misleading summaries”

“So the app is more restricted, the "free" (actually paid) monthly credits are gone, and somehow this will "maintain the same experience as you are used to".”

“Google's knowledge graph used to deliver very accurate and authoritative information but now that's been replaced by a stochastic system”

“What was worrying is only some of the claims were supported by the linked study, and most of the response content was drawn from the spam sites.”

“the amount of Claude Opus and Gemini Pro tokens that they give you on the subscription is very generous”

“It was a sad surprise last week when we tried to upgrade the workspace AI plan for some of our team members to Ultra and it was gone.”

“In theory for one AI pro subscription you can get what is a ridiculous return in investment in a family plan.”

“Google is by far the best deal for AI, they give you so many 'buckets' of usage for a variety of products”

“It seems to source web page information for grounding so it's reasonably correct and doesn't hallucinate recently at least.”

“Like math expressions (especially with units) where it will just give you some random hallucination”

“Given how many accounts folks sign up for with their Google account, it very well could mean losing access to bear every single account you have online.”

“they change their TOS without informing you, they collect everything they can from you and yet, you spend $249/mo for their service”

“Banning your paying customers' accounts because they sent too many requests is an insane way to deal with having too many requests.”

“You're paying for a service with certain capabilities, then getting restricted for actually using those capabilities through a different interface.”

“I use Gemini Ultra and across all models from Gemini 3.1 Pro to Claude Opus 4.6, I have never hit 429s”

“They are not serious. I only keep the "AI Pro" sub because it comes with a couple terabytes of Drive storage for the family.”

“What's disgusting is that they want the good parts of subs (low usage subs), but then just ban the bad parts (high usage people).”

“locking paid accounts with no warning, no explanation email, and no functioning support path while continuing to charge $249/month”

“has very good and rapid web search grounding that makes the Google index almost feel like part of its training set”

“you can get most (or even nearly all) of that right now today on any device by just getting a Google AI subscription”

“Google AI did mention "continued fraction" in its summary, so I edited my post and tried searching on that which led me to the solution!”

“$20 Google AI Pro and Google Antigravity IDE, which gives you access to Claude Code, is a pretty decent offering for agent coding”

“It took the cautious route and recommended they not be combined, but I’m surprised that AI overviews for this type of thing would be allowed.”

“The only way to use Google AI safely is to double-check everything carefully with authoritative sources before trying any of its suggestions, which surely removes much or all of its value.”