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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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Idiots. They are trying to organize human life around AI, instead of organizing Ai around human life.
It’s just like all other leftist plans to reject human free will and organize humans around schemes.
Dear Google,
If I’m searching for something, the LAST thing in the world I want to see is your summary of what you think I should know.
They haven’t already? The web was fine until Google came along.
Not impressed. I’ve been somewhat displeased with search engines in general since they quit doing true Boolean searches.
BTTT!
Yeah, because she (Ray) makes her money on SEO, and you can't really do that with AI search.
Nope. Quite the opposite. AI is going to kill Google as a search monopoly.
Correct. They haven’t figured out how to cram ads into AI.
I haven’t used Google as a default search engine for 7-8 years. FReepers should all DeGoogle. They are running on past reputation, that are not that good.
Google is trying to make the internet one big advertising platform.
Use Grok insane mode.
“The worst part of AI is that it is a Karen preaching at you. If you don’t
select your vocabulary from their approved list of woke words it will nag
you. Honestly, I have no use at all for AI. None.”
You do not understand AI so you are afraid.
Just imagine their algorithm. AlGore will be the Goggle AI sage. Anyone asking the AI to provide major historical information on the back-and-forth long ice ages, with short warm periods in between, will be immediately labeled a denier.
I want the full web, not the light web. Fear of the full web is an interesting problem people tumble over.
I would rather use the card catalog at the library.
That’s fine. There are other options, and if this sucks badly enough, there will be others that do conventional search. I used to use Altavista, and Yahoo before that. There will almost always be another one.
“I would rather use the card catalog at the library.”
Most libraries don’t have card catalogs.
AI is just another opinion.
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