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Correction or Not: This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Is Worth Buying for the Long Haul
Is this tech giant still a top pick for the next decade or three? Here's what long-term thinkers need to know.
I thought of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) as an artificial intelligence (AI) specialist long before I saw it as a business or an investment idea.
The underlying Google organization started its game-changing search engine in the late 1990s. I studied information science and AI at the time (go Noles!), and was fascinated with Google's search engine. Older alternatives like Lycos, WebCrawler, and Alta Vista could also deliver helpful search results but only if you knew how to tweak your queries just right. It was a lot of work to design search strings like (Motley AND Fool AND investing) AND NOT (scam OR speculation), hoping to find the exact thing I'm looking for
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