How much longer before we lose relevance in search and email? Can we make it on YouTube / Waymo? Any other revenue streams gaining traction?
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Verily is closing its medical device program as Alphabet shifts more resources to AI
Alphabet's life sciences arm Verily laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program as AI and data infrastructure take center stage.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/verily-is-closing-its-medical-device-program-as-alphabet-shifts-more-resources-to-ai/
TechCrunch
Aug/27/2025 12:24 AM
Look at the younger users, they're not "Googling" anymore they're all on LLMs asking chatbot questions, tailored user experience and answers specific to their ask.
Who has time to search for information in links anymore and when those links are just adverts?
The writing is on the wall/door/window/whole house, Google's relevance will diminish, they'll essentially turn in to Yahoo (which is quite interesting because Prabhakar Raghavan ran the Search division until last year)