For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline” (with regard to advertising, kinda-sorta)

    • artifex@piefed.socialOP
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      1 day ago

      This is all according to plan for Google tho. What could be better than having everyone sign up for the GoogleNet? We’ll finally back to the ways of pre-Internet AOL and Compuserve.

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        6 hours ago

        Pretty sure all the AI companies were hoping to wrap the internet in their AI as a user interface, for a fee oc.