Ten Blue Links “who’s afraid of the ten blue links?” edition

1. Google eats the web, finds it’s not very fillingAlphabet fell 12.6% on 29 Oct, wiping out about $500bn, after Google's chief business officer said AI Mode makes less money than traditional search. Reddit — which has been the big winner for search traffic over the past few years — also saw it’s share tank on falling search traffic, and it will now push visitors to log in.The funny thing is that Google spent a decade gradually trying to keep people on its own pages, then built a machine that answers questions with everyone else's work. Now — shock, horror — the web is adapting to a life without Google traffic, which is hurting Google’s own revenue.Casey's "Google will be fine. It's the rest of us I worry about" is the most accurate sentence about search this year, and a decent epitaph for this column's name. Anyone got suggestions about what I should change it to?2. Proton: move fast and break encryptionI’ve been a paying Proton customer for several years, so I’m pretty irritated at…