Ok. Here are the issues:
- Google is an Ad Company. So their incentive will always be to serve you ads, collect data. You are their customer. They do not simply make these tools to help you, and make it easier and more reliable to search for stuff. Ask yourself how will Google, and others, make money off of these "AI" tools now? It will be even more deceiving and sneaky.
- In a sane society (not trade-based) these tools would be tested a lot. For accuracy, for what the outcome can be if billions of people use them, etc.. Did Google do that? I doubt.
- If Google removes the search results and replaces it all with "AI" summaries and explanations, two things happen: Complete reliance on the biggest Ad Company for answering your search queries. And second, people will further drift apart from understanding that trust was a key factor in knowing if a source is valid or not. Like where is the info coming from. Now it will simply come from the AI God. Blackhole.
In theory to have access to a faster and more reliable way of finding information is a must in a world that is saturated with information. BUT the way it is done now it will make rich people richer, and the consumers more "consuming".
It is simply a normal evolution of a trade-based society. As it is in the offline, it is in the online too.
Same society, same shit.
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Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something):techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goog…
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🧵>>Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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in reply to Tio • • •@emilymbender
BTW, I don't think Google is going to completely ditch their search results page, because the TechCrunch article said it like this:
> Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times.
I don't think "at times" at the end here was an accident. It is still very bad that Google is doing this, but I feel like if they removed the search results page entirely then there would be a big backlash.
Rokosun
in reply to Rokosun • • •@emilymbender
What Google is trying to do now is to slowly get people accustomed to the "AI-powered interactive experience" and perhaps sometime in the future they would make it the default, reminds me of the boiling frog.....
Tio
in reply to Rokosun • •They may not do it now, but may do it eventually. Plus if they push that interactive summary then most people will use that, just as today they use those simple summaries. So in a sense making the search results irrelevant.
But thank you for pointing that out.
Rokosun
in reply to Tio • • •@emilymbender
Yes that's what I said in my next comment - fosstodon.org/@futureisfoss/11…
Rokosun
2026-05-22 09:26:14
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