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Posted on 06/23/2025 6:07:03 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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On 20 May 2025, Google's chief executive Sundar Pichai walked on stage at the company's annual developer conference. It's been a year since the launch of AI Overviews, the AI-generated responses you've probably seen at the top of Google Search results. Now, Pichai said, Google is going further. "For those who want an end-to-end AI Search experience, we are introducing an all-new AI Mode," he said. "It's a total reimagining of Search."
You might be sceptical after years of AI hype, but this, for once, is the real deal.
"If Google makes AI Mode the default in its current form, it's going to have a devastating impact on the internet" – Lily Ray
People use Google Search five trillion times a year – it defines the shape of the internet. AI Mode is a radical departure. Unlike AI Overviews, AI Mode replaces traditional search results altogether. Instead, a chatbot effectively creates a miniature article to answer your question. As you read this, AI Mode is rolling out to users in the US, appearing as a button on the search engine and the company's app. It's optional for now, but Google's head of Search, Liz Reid, said it plainly when launching the tool: "This is the future of Google Search."
Here's the problem critics foresee – AI Overviews already sends much less traffic to the rest of the internet, and many fear AI Mode could supercharge that trend. If this comes to pass, it could crush the business model that's fuelled the digital content you've enjoyed for almost 30 years.
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Have never knowingly used Google search...
No one needs to use Google.
When Google denies the hits to the web pages, the web pages die.
Once the pages die… the. The google search dies.
A toxic host !
Good job.
Your AI is defective; check your prompt. God looks like Morgan Freeman. Any computer search should show you that.
So we have a choice now... get error riddled results using search engines run by human input/output. Or get error riddled results using ai input/output.
Hmm, tough choice.
....and all on a 5th grade level!
Their plan all along has been to segue to where you get just the customized, intermediated search result they want to give you, based on all they know about you individually. Complete manipulation and control.
Most people haven’t even noticed how much has already been taken away from regular google searches—and google is still the complete and up-to-date search there is.
I can’t believe people still use Google. For crying out loud, there are so many better search engines out there. I prefer Presearch, but DuckDuckGo is also good. But practically any alternative is less toxic to human life than Google.
The operative word in “Artificial Intelligence” is “Artificial”.
“Have never knowingly used Google search”
If you use Duck Duck Go the joke’s on you. They brag about using Google algorithms without the tracking. What do you use?
Dissenter
Right Dao
Brave (Private Window)
Don’t use Google at all except the wife’s car which is a Google nightmare infotainment system. I said we ARE NOT logging into a f’n car. We continue as guest.
HAL not impressed
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