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Google Has Only Solidified Its Search Monopoly in Africa Since Microsoft's Chatbot/LLM Hype Started

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 12, 2024,

updated Dec 12, 2024

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Microsoft has had many mass layoffs in Africa this year. Windows is a dying platform in Africa and even Microsoft's online disservices, including search, aren't doing well.

Africa is basically a "Failed Market" to Microsoft. Colonised Kenya was exploited by Microsoft as a pool of 2-dollars-an-hour workers, manipulating LLMs (so they're basically not data-driven; they're driven by human slaves in Kenya) and now that we examine this month's data we can clearly see that Google gained about 2% in "market share" (at Microsoft's expense).

In South Africa, for instance, Bing fell from 6% to 4% since all that chatbot hype began and this is Africa as a whole.

Now we have Google's CEO pretty much admitting that LLMs are a dead end. Version inflation to hype up pure nonsense is all they have left after stomping on existing names, rebranding Bard as "Gemini".

At the end of the day, when people search the Web they wish to find reliable pages/domains with authoritative claims and corresponding - sometimes peer-reviewed - sources, they don't want chatbots. Microsoft could make no progress in search, so it said that search grape were sour and instead people needed chatbots. That didn't work. massive financial losses speak for themselves. █