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    1. Modem_Sound_67 on

      >The changes mean you’ll get a traditional list of links much less often. Instead, you’ll get AI-powered answers, personalized just to you. That’s not the internet we know.

      No I won’t, because I haven’t used Google for search for years and I can’t imagine why anyone does anymore.

    3. Gravuerc on

      The article is just talking about them integrating even more AI into their search engine.

      Let’s be honest Google’s search results have been getting steadily more useless with every passing year. It’s past time to start using a different service.

    4. Spectator_Ion_ on

      The open-web economy built around search traffic is being permanently weakened.

    6. Tortastrophe on

      Google loves destroying or removing services and features. I sat this as a Pixel user. Good motivation to get people off Google search and Chrome.

    9. QuesoMeHungry on

      So basically Google gets to steal your content with AI and present it directly, destroying traffic to your site.

    10. OpenTechie on

      I remember when Google pressured people to put ads on their websites to be allowed to be seen on search pages back in the 2000s. 

      Every year since Google has worsened the internet for people. 

    12. russian_cyborg on

      Google is kinda obsolete for me.  Only product they have a solid monopoly on is Maps.  I left mail and search years ago

      And Android is just shitty IOS now.   God I would love a good Linux phone

    13. fromfrodotogollum on

      They just started putting sponsored directions instead of the best choice on top. You will search for the name of a place and it’ll be the second choice.

    14. musecorn on

      Maybe we shouldn’t have a single-point-failure in something as important as the internet. I welcome Google becoming shittier and shittier because it will cause people to look elsewhere for their services and break the monopoly

    18. Gr8daze on

      Google sucks. It’s biased and just crap at this point. It feeds you the viewpoint it wants you to believe.

    24. pioniere on

      Like many others, I don’t use Google at all for searches. There are better alternatives.

    25. Ok-Reply-1477 on

      Use Ecosia. Still not too great of a search engine but they plant trees

    28. Remarkable_Sea_1430 on

      They’ve been doing AI overviews for the past year. They’ve scaled it up till they appear on most searches. The terrible future this article is worried about is definitely already here.

    29. Electrical_Prune6545 on

      Google started to suck with SEO. This is just the final stage of enshittification.

    33. red286 on

      Google is not the internet.

      Google can only ruin things which Google controls. If they ruin Google Search, then people will just stop using Google Search. Ruining Google Search does not ruin the whole internet.

    34. robyculous_v2 on

      Is every article that gets posted on Reddit paywalled? I understand why most users don’t read the articles now.

    35. Zestyclose_Report526 on

      Since most people are clearly too lazy to read or understand the issue here:

      The problem is google AI giving you an “AI summary” that they scraped from other websites. Basically stealing traffic and content from the rest of the internet.

      Now you search “how do I make an apple pie” Google’s AI summary tells you how to make an apple pie right in Google search “results” page. You don’t visit any other website.

      This means 0 traffic for people creating, hosting and building sites that contain the content. Which means 0 revenue, which means ALOT sites will all dry up and disappear because of this.

      TLDR, Google is blatantly stealing content from websites.

    37. danivus on

      I tried google’s AI search yesterday because I was looking for a very specific image I remembered but couldn’t find. Figured maybe describing it to the AI might work, so I did and asked it to search for that image.

      It fucking AI generated a garbage version of what I described instead.

      We’re cooked.