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
    9·
    6 months ago

    We know what the internet would have been without Google and other corporations closing it down 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. People would also share links around school.

    Sure, there was a chance you’d get Chlamydia if you opened the wrong link, but it was exciting and overall the experience was wholesome.

  • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    just dont use google? I havent used google search for years now and there hasnt been single time where i would have needed to use google search even once. Though unfortunately i’m still bound to the damn gmail because i cant find better alternative for it.

    • rhabarba@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Though unfortunately i’m still bound to the damn gmail because i cant find better alternative for it.

      I self-host my e-mails, but that probably isn’t a viable solution for just everyone.

      • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        i just want a service that i dont have to hassle with, so this would definitely not be good for me 😅 Also i dont think many places even accept self hosted email as “real”, at least some places dont accept alias addresses.

        its so annoying when any decent alternative costs money, which isnt very good thing for my “official” email which i need for important things. Dont want to end up in situation where i get locked out of it because i didnt or couldnt pay for some reason. Though i constantly have to slightly fear that with google too since they can lock anyone’s account for any reason they see fit.

    • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      Ah yes, the Volvo S90 and VW Passat, definitely SUVs. Even Google’s screenshots show 40% garbage.

  • crystalmerchant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Lmao there’s whole books about this. One is Life After Google, published 10 (?) years ago and it said blockchain would rule the world :) The subtitle is literally “The Fall Of Big Data And The Rise Of The Blockchain Economy”

  • vane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    I am asking my local searxng. As long as websites produce content there will be search robot that will crawl them, doesn’t matter if it’s google or common crawl dump. The content will be scrapped and indexed and you will be able to chose from where to find it. Google just relies on users that are locked in their freemium services. If they can force users to pay the users will pay for search. Fortunately for me I am not one of them. Good luck.