Rest of World faces prospect of shutting down

The Next Great (Digital) Extinction

How today's internet is rapidly and indifferently killing off many systems while allowing new types of organizations to emerge.

Is Google about to destroy the web?

Google says adding more AI to its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites. One thing is clear: this era of online history is closing.

My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet

Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.

It’s the End of the Web as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

AI is disrupting web search and publishing, perhaps for the better…

When, How, and Why to Abandon the Internet

Should we abandon the internet? Voice memos from Douglas Rushkoff, Bridget Todd, Robin Berjon, Janet Vertesi and more on leaving, rebuilding or saving it.

Can We Survive Technology

Search the history of more than 1 trillion web pages.

Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search

The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators

What Happened to Google+? Why the Social Network Shut Down | EM360Tech

This article explores what happened to Google+, explaining why Google's infamous social Circles never took off in the golden age of online social media.

Reddit might cut ties with Google as traffic drops.

Reddit has discussed shutting off Google’s access to data used to train its Gemini AI models. Or maybe it’s just a renegotiation bluff now that its $60 million-a-year deal is coming to an end. According to The Wall Street Journal: > … with AI-generated answers to queries reducing clicks to outside websites, Reddit executives are assessing what the upside is of continuing to feed its content to Google, said the people familiar with the matter. Google Zero comes for us all, eventually. [Link: Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off. | https://www.wsj.com/business/media/google-search-publishers-ai-content-0fb06e41?st=afkkxc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink | wsj.com]

Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search

Changes to Search have sent ripples across the media industry.

Funding The Web: A Wise Choice

The Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy. Let's fix it!

It's time to rebuild the web

The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.

The Disappearing World Wide Web

Fare thee well, oh honey...

The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows

All signs point to a future internet where bot-driven interactions far outnumber human ones.