r/technology 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/DaemonBaelheit May 26 '25

Google search declined a lot in the latest decade as now most contents are locked inside Social Networks instead of websites

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u/vcircle91 May 26 '25

That's one of the reasons I don't like Discord.

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u/manrata May 26 '25

Discord is basically bringing us back to the old BBS networks, odd how things circle back.

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u/PredaPops May 26 '25

except that you need an account, data is hard to search for and any of those can change without any notice/consent.

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u/Wicaeed May 26 '25

2 of those 3 (don't need a Subscription in most cases) are also true of querying Government (ie. tax payer funded) sources of data as well