Google is moving to quickly kill internet search and replace it with a closed ecosystem of LLM-generated answers. This will change the entire economics of how the internet works.

Welcome to the future, where asking a question costs $4.99 and you’ll never be able to find out if the answer is right or not.

  • Cyberwolf@feddit.orgEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    We know what the internet would have been without Google because some of us lived it. It was mostly decentralised niche forums that you had to know the links for, and you’d receive random emails telling you to visit this or that new site.

    It was wholesome.