My favorite new thing to come out of #GoogleIO is Web view 👏 @ernie has the simple hack to make it the default result.

https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search

Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.

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Google I/O wrapped up, and I have a LOT of thoughts. Shot a quick reaction video on the keynote here https://somegadgetguy.com/b/455
Some really interesting AI tools are coming, but will Gemini search continue hurting website traffic?

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Google I/O 2024 Reactions: Will AI Search Destroy YOUR Website Traffic?

Google I/O is here! I just finished the keynote, and I have a LOT of thoughts. We’re seeing some fun demonstrations of Gemini services. New ways to help people sort and organize their informa…

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This looks awesome, can't wait to test it live!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXVvvRhiGjI

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Project Astra: Our vision for the future of AI assistants

Introducing Project Astra. We created a demo in which a tester interacts with a prototype of AI agents supported by our multimodal foundation model, Gemini. ...

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Watching #GoogleIO and there are some cool demonstrations of data center cloud computing, but there's also this fog of dystopia surrounding these demos.
The announcements for search are horrifying. Google is full mask off.

Phrases like "search for something, and we'll collect all this data for you" basically equates to:

"We sucked up ALL the data from people who really did the work, and we're going to give you the results of their hard work, but we wont take you to the site that generated the data. You can stay on the search page, and the site's traffic will plummet."

This is shocking.

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In case you can't watch Google I/O, here's a recap.

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