Google fukked over alot of other search engines dealing with Reddit to only allow recent results from that site on Google.
The old internet will die soon. Google on the verge of AI only search
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This is actually what DUNE is about - not just how we enslaved ourselves to.machines but once we were free of them we just replaced those machine masters with humans who did the same thing that the machines once did ...we were still enslaved ....
The movie could have made this point much much much better ....that TV show was boring as fukk ...
Elim Garak
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I can't stand that AI search. At my job customers do a search and get results from it about or products and then I have to talk them off a ledge letting them know it's not correct and why.
AI search is starting to kill Google’s ‘ten blue links’
New Adobe data reveals AI search referrals are on the rise.
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AI search is starting to kill Google’s ‘ten blue links’
New Adobe data reveals AI search referrals are on the rise.
by Kylie Robison
Mar 17, 2025, 6:30 PM EDT
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Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge
Kylie Robison is a senior AI reporter working with The Verge’s policy and tech teams. She previously worked at Fortune Magazine and Business Insider.
After decades of relying on Google’s ten blue links to find everything from travel tips to jeans, consumers are quickly adapting to a completely new format: AI chatbots that do the searching for them.
According to new research from Adobe, AI search has become a significant traffic channel for retailers. The company analyzed “more than 1 trillion visits to U.S. retail sites” through its analytics platform, and conducted a survey of “more than 5,000 U.S. respondents” to better understand how people are using AI.
The report says AI search referrals surged 1,300 percent during the 2024 holiday season compared to 2023, with Cyber Monday seeing a 1,950 percent jump. While these are dramatic increases, it’s somewhat expected, since AI search was still in its nascency last year.
What’s more interesting is the engagement metrics: Users who are referred from AI search compared to traditional referrals (like a standard Google or Bing search) tend to stay on the site 8 percent longer, browse through different pages 12 percent more, and are 23 percent less likely to just visit the link and leave (or “bounce”). This could suggest that AI tools are directing people to more relevant pages than traditional search.
The roll out of generative AI search tools hasn’t been perfect, and it wasn’t immediately clear whether it would be a helpful tool or not. It’s been almost a year since Google launched AI Overviews (formerly dubbed the Search Generative Experience or SGE). It quickly got messy: telling users to add some glue to their pizza in order to get the cheese to stick or to eat at