On Google declaring war on the Web

In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processes answer” direction that “AI Overviews” (you know, those AI snippets in current Search that are wrong about 10% of the time) thereby giving up on the paradigm of providing links to information.While they packaged it as a lot of “AI” talk and “agentic” and whatnot, what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters. The web is being fully hidden behind a Google-controlled surface. And I am not even talking about their browser monopoly.Your work, your writing or art do matter a bit still: As (unpaid) raw material for their…