Google is moving to quickly kill internet search and replace it with a closed ecosystem of LLM-generated answers. This will change the entire economics of how the internet works.

Welcome to the future, where asking a question costs $4.99 and you’ll never be able to find out if the answer is right or not.

  • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    9·
    20 hours ago

    just dont use google? I havent used google search for years now and there hasnt been single time where i would have needed to use google search even once. Though unfortunately i’m still bound to the damn gmail because i cant find better alternative for it.

    • rhabarba@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      3·
      19 hours ago

      Though unfortunately i’m still bound to the damn gmail because i cant find better alternative for it.

      I self-host my e-mails, but that probably isn’t a viable solution for just everyone.

      • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        17 hours ago

        i just want a service that i dont have to hassle with, so this would definitely not be good for me 😅 Also i dont think many places even accept self hosted email as “real”, at least some places dont accept alias addresses.

        its so annoying when any decent alternative costs money, which isnt very good thing for my “official” email which i need for important things. Dont want to end up in situation where i get locked out of it because i didnt or couldnt pay for some reason. Though i constantly have to slightly fear that with google too since they can lock anyone’s account for any reason they see fit.

      • eleitl@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        14 hours ago

        Gmail is way more reliable than anything I could self-host. It’s a huge pile of unsorted junk that is only usable with search.