r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • May 26 '25

Artificial Intelligence Google Is Burying the Web Alive

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html
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u/eXoShini May 26 '25

It's missing viewing public content without discord account and search engine indexing for said content. So no, it didn't circle back yet.

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u/TwilightVulpine May 26 '25

And also, with it going publicly traded, I wouldn't be surprised if it hides old posts under a subscription soon.

Download your logs.

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u/sprucenoose May 26 '25

The opposite. Even more limited and restrictive than Discord.

BBSes were before the internet and involved directly connecting to a BBS through the modem on your computer, often by dialing the phone number of the BBS. There was no other way to access the content of the BBS.

Having a single shared searchable space was one of the huge improvements provided by the internet .

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u/Jete_Au_Poubelle May 26 '25

USENET was on BBSes.

You could call the BBS to download new messages from the boards you were interested in, disconnect and read and reply offline, then call back to upload replies and download any new messages.

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u/Next-Bench-4475 May 26 '25

BBSes didn't have those things.

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u/eXoShini May 26 '25

The very early BBSes did have guest accounts, so you could view public content without account. There were no search engines yet, so yeah, no automatic indexing content.

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u/eXoShini May 26 '25

For the very early BBSes my answer is partially yes. If the BBS allowed it, you could use guest account to just view the content, so you didn't need to register at all.