When I do a web search, I do not want Google to go to the websites for me, pull the information, and interpret it for me. I want it to give me a list of websites that I can read and evaluate myself because AI is frequently wrong: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/
@evacide absolutely wild that Google is willing to "eat their seed corn" as it were. They make their money on ads, and those ads are displayed primarily on websites, which their search engine is now actively encouraging people NOT to visit. It doesn't take a Harvard MBA to see the gaping hole in this plan of theirs.
@evacide They could have put their AI chops into fifht8ng off SEO oiptimised stuff that made their beautifully elegant home page ( showing my age) useless
Imagine that: a useful search engine
But instead....
@evacide I can't stop using google search any more than I already have.
For a long time now I've wanted for people to realise that it makes no sense to be looking for information using an advertisement machine.
But this is a completely different level.
They no longer want to "search" the web, they want to BE the web
@evacide "When I do a web search, I do not want Google."
@evacide can't read because it wants me to disable my ad blocker. Anyway, I migrated to qwant some time ago _exactly_ because I was so annoyed by AI summaries, and I have not looked back.
@evacide simple solution Startpage or Duckduckgo with deactivated AI summaries and functions. I still would recommend Startpage over Duck Duck Go because of AI trash.
@evacide you are so 2010... 😁 And so am I.
@evacide but that doesn't help their "users of ai" number go up. I love the grift of it all /s
On a more practical note:
Anybody have a list of ranges and user agents I can use to ban Google from ever again indexing my website(s)?
Are their “agentic search assistants” coming from the same places and with the same user agents?
For anyone that wants to turn it off
https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/381948916/how-to-shut-down-and-delete-the-ai-mode-from-google?hl=en
@evacide and since google still wants to make billions by selling keywords the llm summary will contain tailored wrong information catering to whoever pays the most.
It will be wrong on purpose.
The vast majority of third party search providers just use the google or bing index. I see a not so distant future where they stop selling access to the index. Killing off those other search engines over night.
@evacide That's why I don't use Google.
