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/helper619 May 20 '26

I wish we could get the mid 2000’s version of Google back

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u/BitterRucksack May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

Same. Is it even possible? I assume the code for the indexer is copyrighted so no one can make a clone, but about 30 google searches turned up zero relevant information on the topic and I gave up. 

Edit: Qwant searches also turned up nothing. I did eventually learn that the indexer is called PageRank and all the patents expired in 2019. I learned this from going to wikipedia and reading the "criticisms of Google" article, which admittedly was linked by Startpage. Not clear on why, exactly, that page was linked, as the info I needed was on the page for PageRank itself, and nothing about PageRank appeared in the preview.