Keeping an eye on Google’s AI.
How Sundar Pichai is rethinking Google for the AI era | Decoder
Google Zero is here — now what?
The old web is dying and the new web struggles to be born.
Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off.
Reddit, Politico and others are weighing how—or even if—they can work with the tech company as AI tools supplant traditional searches.
Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off.
Reddit, Politico and others are weighing how—or even if—they can work with the tech company as AI tools supplant traditional searches.
Zero-click searches: Google’s AI tools are the culmination of its hubris
Google's first year with AI search was a wild ride. It will get wilder.
Google is its own worst enemy
In its bid to push AI, it’s destroying its products and trying to kill the web too
The Technical Feasibility of Divesting Google Chrome – Knight-Georgetown Institute
As the European Commission advances efforts under the Digital Markets Act to require Google to share its search data with competitors, lessons from historic antitrust remedies underscore how data access could be transformational in the AI-powered search market. While the Commission’s proposals represent a novel and comprehensive approach, key improvements to data scope and sharing frequency, privacy protections, and dispute resolution are needed. US courts and enforcers charged with implementing similar provisions should take note.
AI Mode is obviously the future of Google Search
The internet’s biggest search engine is going to be unrecognizable in just a few years.
Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
Google Faces New EU Antitrust Probe Over Search Ad Pricing Practices
Google, the target for billions of euros in European Union antitrust fines, has been hit by a fresh EU probe over concerns it’s illegally rigging the cost of advertising on its search engine.
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.
Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search
Changes to Search have sent ripples across the media industry.
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]
Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web
How Google’s CEO is reshaping the company — and the internet.
The Case Against Google (Published 2018)
Critics say the search giant is squelching competition before it begins. Should the government step in?
Google’s broken link to the web
With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background
