Google’s broken link to the web

Does this have to be a bad thing, though? If the web as we know it changes in the face of artificial abundance? Some will say it’s just the way of the world, noting that the web itself killed what came before it, and often for the better. Printed encyclopedias are all but extinct, for example, but I prefer the breadth and accessibility of Wikipedia... See more

It’s a real doozy. Everything we do online to create content these days is reliant on Google, the company, as an arbiter of what makes content “good”, which is really the decision of maybe a few hundred PMs and developers (now at home) in California, and entirely dependent on what’s going to continue to make Google profitable instead of what’s actu... See more

Everybody wants to control the AI chat interface because... duh... controlling the starting point of information discovery and commerce is ultimate power. The Ring.. Dark Lord Sauron, the Ring. What we are seeing is the proliferation of starting points. AI has created a competitive crack in Google's search armor.

“New Search” looks different than ol... See more