In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.
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In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.
While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters.
Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others.
This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information.
If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.
@tante Google blog article, https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/sundar-pichai-io-2026/#agents
"Search in the agentic era"
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In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.
While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters.
Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others.
This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information.
If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.
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@tante Google blog article, https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/sundar-pichai-io-2026/#agents
"Search in the agentic era"
What the fuck is even going on with their branding in that header image? I swear, branding has gotten significantly worse in the last 2 years. It was boring before, but now it is just all over the place.
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What the fuck is even going on with their branding in that header image? I swear, branding has gotten significantly worse in the last 2 years. It was boring before, but now it is just all over the place.
@theeclecticdyslexic @cohentheblue @tante it's a hallucinated version of their logo
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@tante Yea I think their dream is to have a device with only one interactable IA and nothing more, like if that were the lamp genie who searchs and make everything that the user wants when prompted. I think they are aiming in that direction. Not having an GUI or apps, only IA that will make everything.
@FrutigerAero00 @tante I think so too. And that also means they control access to everything you can do and know online. And that's frightening.
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In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.
While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters.
Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others.
This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information.
If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.
@tante switch to a different search enginr. Did thst long ago when google search rrsults started to be crap already.
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@tante switch to a different search enginr. Did thst long ago when google search rrsults started to be crap already.
@1024Bytes I already did quite a while ago. Google's chokehold on that space is massive though
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In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.
While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters.
Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others.
This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information.
If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.
@tante Feed it! Feed it slop until it starts hallucinating full time.
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@tante switch to a different search enginr. Did thst long ago when google search rrsults started to be crap already.
@1024Bytes @tante
I tried DuckDuckGo (Really Bing and does now have a noAI mode) for a while but now use Qwant. -
In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.
While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters.
Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others.
This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information.
If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.
@tante I remember the slogan ”organize the world's information and make it accessible,” and it still appears on their website. To us non-galaxy-brained folks, the AI push fails on both counts: it DISorganizes info into slop and makes it INaccessible to anyone not able or willing to pay.
No doubt they'd spin it as consistent, but I think of someone being forced to drink from a firehose and being told they ‘have access to to the world's water’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgPgsvxxxKE
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In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.
While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters.
Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others.
This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information.
If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.
@tante ok so we're at war with ... (checks notes) Google? Not Meta? Not Microsoft? Not Amazon? Not Oracle? Not Palantir? Not Apple? Not Tesla? Not X?
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@tante ok so we're at war with ... (checks notes) Google? Not Meta? Not Microsoft? Not Amazon? Not Oracle? Not Palantir? Not Apple? Not Tesla? Not X?
@tante I think we're gonna need a bigger boat
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@tante ok so we're at war with ... (checks notes) Google? Not Meta? Not Microsoft? Not Amazon? Not Oracle? Not Palantir? Not Apple? Not Tesla? Not X?
@codinghorror why not all of them?
This is not a "just google is bad" kind of thing. It's just that the one company that structures most people's access to the web decided to change the contract unilaterally. I think that that specific thing needs highlighting while also burning Meta and X and all them to the ground. We can contain multitudes (of ways of defending access to information, expression and connection)
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@codinghorror why not all of them?
This is not a "just google is bad" kind of thing. It's just that the one company that structures most people's access to the web decided to change the contract unilaterally. I think that that specific thing needs highlighting while also burning Meta and X and all them to the ground. We can contain multitudes (of ways of defending access to information, expression and connection)
@tante why not all of us? aren't humans the original mistake?
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@FrutigerAero00 @tante I think so too. And that also means they control access to everything you can do and know online. And that's frightening.
@misjavanlaatum @tante Exactly. But if we still can access the web the same way we are doing right now, there will be hope.
What I fear most are the laws that could be implemented that will (and are) limiting how we interact with the internet. The moment the freedom to use internet is prosecuted (which is happening) we are gonna be fucked haha -
@tante why not all of us? aren't humans the original mistake?
@codinghorror corporations aren't humanity jeff
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@tante why not all of us? aren't humans the original mistake?
@tante I feel like no one actually wants to take full responsibility here. It's always something else, someone else that's the problem, isn't it? Never us. It's them. They're the problem... right?
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@tante I feel like no one actually wants to take full responsibility here. It's always something else, someone else that's the problem, isn't it? Never us. It's them. They're the problem... right?
@tante I think we can do significantly better than this. But what do I know. Take my advice and do as you please.
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@tante why not all of us? aren't humans the original mistake?
@codinghorror I don't follow that train of thought to be honest. Where does this "humans are the problem" angle come from? I am talking about a specific move by a monopolist and a) the ways that people might try to protect themselves and b) ways of using collective power (as in politics) to protect the greater good
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In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.
While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters.
Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others.
This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information.
If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.
Information and data are the new means of production, and Google and many other Big Tech companies have spent decades building monopolies to act as the paid gatekeeper.
Buy a set of hard copy maps and encyclopaedias before they no longer exist.
