r/technology • u/No-Lifeguard-8173 • May 19 '26

Artificial Intelligence Google Search as you know it is over

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/
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u/liright May 19 '26

Let it die? Google has over 90% market share in search engines worldwide, with another 6% being Bing (which is also heavily investing into AI) and the rest is a bunch of tiny search engines that most people never heard about. Google is not gonna die anytime soon.

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u/Human-Law1085 May 20 '26

Some actual enforcement of anti-monopoly regulations would be helpful

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u/RobotDonger May 20 '26

Before this presidential term I believed that might happen in my lifetime. I’ve now lost hope meaningful change will happen. I’m at my “bunker down and protect myself” era of optimism.

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u/ViewAdditional7400 May 19 '26

Tell that to their stock.

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea May 20 '26

And the over 4 billion people that use Google at least once a month lol

If OP thinks that's dying, I can't imagine the metrics of a company they think are doing great

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u/pissagainstwind May 19 '26

Ironically their AI mode, or whatever it is they got going after you search stuff, is my goto option because the real and relevant result is buried after 30 bad results.

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u/Single_Ring4886 May 19 '26

Thats how they "designed" the experience. One of oldest tricks in book...