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NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews

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242 points alphabetting | 2 comments | 17 Oct 24 16:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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xnx ◴[17 Oct 24 18:20 UTC] No.41872217[source]▶
In a sea of similar tools, Google seems to have struck on something semi-viral with NotebookLM. Output can be mediocre, but with the bar for many podcasts being set at "read pages from Wikipedia", that's not bad at all for zero effort.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=NotebookLM...

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1. authorfly ◴[17 Oct 24 18:44 UTC] No.41872518[source]▶
The 100 baseline on that graph is the highest attention the term has received, and it correlated with a launch and has since decreased.

Google never has problems with first the first few millions for consumer-launched tools. They have problems with the first few millions of net profit almost 100% of the time and shut it down a few years later.

But I do agree this is a good play for Google, it plays to their strengths.

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2. xnx ◴[17 Oct 24 21:16 UTC] No.41873875[source]▶
> The 100 baseline on that graph is the highest attention the term has receive

Good point. I couldn't come up with a well-enough known competing tool to compare against.