nixCraft 🐧5d ago

New site: google just killed search https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

yeah, we know. We saw a massive drop in SO/Wikipedia traffic over the last 2 years, so yday's announcement was just closing the deal. Google has officially killed the web that was made of links. It is now a giant box that steals web pages/images/videos from all websites and pretends to know everything with its model and weights often with lots of wrong information. I hope this madness leads to a better search engine and EOL of Google.

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.

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@nixCraft Google is not a search engine anymore.

I'm using Ecosia right now, but they added AI overviews too, and have a chatbot tab. I don't know how they can claim any kind of "eco".

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Show threadprimeapple4d ago
@Fedihacker @nixCraft They are afraid AI is eating their lunch (and in all honesty -> it will). So they pivot towards it.
Show threadDisisdeguey🔻PalestineAction🇵🇸4d ago
@Fedihacker @nixCraft Ecosia claims that everytime you use it "WE PLANT A TREE".
Well @ecosia when the #AIMonster drinks all the water, all those trees will die.
Nothing "eco" with #AIShit