Google's (baffling) plans to turn search into ad-polluted AI won't make Google Search all that much worse than it is now.
I use Kagi, which uses Google API, and others, to create a search that actually works well, and recommend it. I also fear Google will kill it.
https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/
@dangillmor Cory Doctorow shared his realization that Kagi operates as an anonymized, paid frontend to Google's search indexes.The "Enshittification"
Proof: Doctorow pointed out that Kagi’s ability to bypass the spam, ads, and SEO garbage on Google—yielding a clean, chronological list—proves that Google actively chooses to "enshittify" its own free products to maximize ad revenue. By acting as a wrapper for Google's API, Kagi funnels subscription revenue to the trillion-dollar ad-tech giant.
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