{"id":1676,"date":"2024-04-04T15:06:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/google-considers-charging-for-premium-search-results-powered-by-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T15:06:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T15:06:07","slug":"google-considers-charging-for-premium-search-results-powered-by-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/google-considers-charging-for-premium-search-results-powered-by-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Google \u2018considers charging\u2019 for premium search results powered by artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Google is considering charging users for &#8220;premium&#8221; internet search results powered by artificial intelligence (AI), according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant is said to be exploring several ideas about how to use the technology, including incorporating enhanced search tools as part of its premium subscription services.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-outbrain\" data-target=\"\" data-widget-mapping=\"\" data-installation-keys=\"\">    <\/div>\n<p><strong>Google<\/strong>&#8216;s main search engine would remain free to use under the proposals, with additional content available to those who pay a fee, sources told the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p>Adverts would continue to appear alongside search results, even for subscribers, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>More than a billion people use the search tool every month, according to estimates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>Google already charges for some features such as extra storage space and its &#8220;<strong>AI<\/strong> Premium&#8221; service, which provides access to its new Gemini AI assistant in Gmail and Docs.<\/p>\n<p>But this would mark the first time that any of the company&#8217;s core products would be put behind a paywall.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Times said it had been informed of the proposals by three sources at Google.<\/p>\n<p>It said engineers have been working on developing the enhanced AI tools, but executives have yet to decide whether or when to launch the feature.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the company told Sky News: &#8220;We&#8217;re not working on or considering an ad-free search experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we&#8217;ve done many times before, we&#8217;ll continue to build new premium capabilities and services to enhance our subscription offerings across Google.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They added: &#8220;We don&#8217;t have anything to announce right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It comes amid intense competition between tech firms over AI and how to use it, with some commentators accusing Google of struggling to keep up with rivals such as <strong>ChatGPT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Last month it emerged that the company had decided to <strong>restrict its AI chatbot Gemini<\/strong> from answering election-related questions in some countries due to concerns about the information being provided to users.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Google also stopped the tool from generating images following complaints about &#8220;inaccurate&#8221; historical depictions of people.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is considering charging users for &#8220;premium&#8221; internet search results powered by artificial intelligence (AI),&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}