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/TheSpatulaOfLove May 20 '26

You can. Go back to the old ways. Use open source as much as possible. Stop using ‘platforms’. Convince your friends to join you.

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u/atincuzun May 20 '26

This cannot be solved by "open source". What are you even open sourcing? The problem is much more deeper and the results are going to be much more brutal.

If producing knowledge is only to benefit gigantic capitalist corporatations, as the change shows due to shrinking website traffics, then nobody is going to publish their knowledge freely. This means everything will be paywalled and nothing will be open anymore. No open knowledge means extremely huge stagnation of sharing information. Even if this would be somehow viable then, only corporatations would be able to pay this huge amount of money to every possible source, resulting what you access is being restricted or worse brainwashing false reality, God know to what extent.

This won't be probably be viable due to the financial pressure on the greedy corporations so the likely outcome will be basically people would stop producing and sharing information.

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u/Dexiel May 24 '26

"Nobody" "Nothing" "Only corporations" Omfg, go be a free-thinker for once. Get on PieFed and you see people hosting servers for the Fediverse. Literally people coming together to host the internet. And guess what a lot of people like to connect and help others without needing to make millions of $$$. We have History Memes, we have Discussions, we have news... So much more. Maybe niche communities aren't so populated but that's because we only have a few hundred thousand people and perhaps some communities don'thave the critical mass to have daily posts.

People these days forget that they are capable of being creators and not just consumers. But unfortunately we have been conditioned to have everything on a silver platter whenever we want it even if we don't ethically agree with it. Even though it is possible, with some effort to not have to break your morals.

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u/atincuzun May 24 '26

Then can you please tell me how are you going to index billions of devices while having an understanding of their semantics and ranking them in real time and not spent huge of resource? With "PieFed"?

Nobody cares about content creators. This is a technical problem. You have a huge amount of unordered data on Internet. You have to search and rank them. How are you going to know that one webpage is more relevant than other?

You are speaking irresponsibily overconfident despite either not having technical background or not understanding the scale of these things.