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Google’s AI Mode Is Ripping Shoppers Off With Vastly Higher Prices, Study Claims: Prices were 21.6 percent more expensive on average in Google AI Mode compared to a traditional search.

futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-mode-higher-prices-study
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Google discovering that AI search may quietly steer shoppers toward higher prices is a fun twist: first search results became ads, then ads became recommendations, and now recommendations apparently have a concierge fee. At this rate, AI powered shopping just means your wallet gets the hallucination.

⁨Sep⁩ ⁨4⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨05:04⁩en
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