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To: Elroy who wrote (77967)	8/24/2025 1:01:34 PM
From: Paul Senior	Respond to of 78984

OT. GOOG. I am old! And I have a small social circle (no teenagers). And I hardly know what or who is popular. When I do find out though, I like to see if there's maybe an investment opportunity. Sometimes mall visits give me a clue as to what young people are buying in retail. If somebody can build a youtube channel and get enough subscribers or "likes" (?) they get paid. Not clear to me how much, it depends, but maybe $2-3k per month for 100k subscribers. Somthing like this just encourages people to go and try to create youtube content. As for example this guy in Cleveland who started a car repro business and decided to video his experiences. And being on youtube, he's automatically international. Maybe now making more money from his videos (and his further expansion into his branded t-shirts and caps) than the business itself. And I'm told this is nothing compared to what young women are doing and earning on paid sites - the sex and fetish related stuff. "Perform" when you want. Lots of signups = big money. Why work for 40 hours/week? And you don't have to pay taxes(?)

To: Elroy who wrote (77967)	8/24/2025 1:01:40 PM
From: Sean Collett	1 Recommendation Recommended By Lance Bredvold Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78984

RE: GOOG Indeed. Again, Google has Gemini so they're already a player in the AI space. Even if Google.com as a search one day sees an end, they are already investing into AI with Gemini. And Google does have Pixel, but Google also has Android as an OS. Quick Google search (lol) spits out there are 3.3-3.5B active Android users. Google has taken to embedding Gemini into all Android devices natively. OpenAI with GPT could only dream of such reach. Even if you are not using Gemini directly you are for sure indirectly as it's built into any current Android phones OS now. And Chrome itself is a gateway but actual Chromium, which is the framework also developed and maintained by Google, is what other browsers like Microsoft Edge are built on. Google isn't going away anytime soon even if search may. -Sean