Sundar Pichai: belief

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…Exactly. My other product idea is, for some reason—I don't know if this is your lived experience, but certainly my lived experience—that search in Google Docs is so much harder than, say, search in Gmail. Obviously, they're both equally good search engines. But I think what's going on is keyword search works reasonably well for email because you can probably remember a unique set of keywords for that email. Whereas what always happens, at least to me, is I want to go back and look at the 2026 budget. It turns out if I search Google Slides for 2026 budget, neither of those words is particularly unique in the context of words that exist in PowerPoints at Stripe, and so I can never find the exact right one. I'm curious, does Sundar Pichai also have this problem? Somehow, I haven't felt it as acutely as you're describing it, but when you describe it, it resonates well with my experience. I'm literally playing through the person to whom I'm going to play this segment of the conversation. I know exactly who I'm going to go talk to, the people who are working on it. I think we can make it a lot better. I think the AI integration into these services, including Google Docs, I think you will see sharp improvements in the coming months ahead. I think we all did the first versions of it where you just put it in somewhere. I think over time, what all can you keep in context, what can you cache and what can you really bring to bear. I think we can make a lot of progress on. I think we can do a lot better. Great. We have a good—…

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