Don't be evil. Drop the don't; it's cleaner.

Breaking news from 2005

Maybe the computer world has been a distributed nightmare of mortgage-driven development for decades now for everyone. Maybe now that the people who were on the inside are not getting that sweet and foolish feeling of being on the inside while everyone else is on the outside, they start to see it's really a monstrous pseudo-intellectual stupidity closer to pop entertainment than science.

Visiting websites as a human is sooo 2025. We are entering a world where only bots actually fetch primary web content any more. Our gatekeeper overlords will filter, curate, and remix everything for us. This is the next step in the machines taking over.

Much of the same discussions:

Google changes its search box

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197370

Google Declaring War on the Web

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214449

DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296649

As a reminder the mission of Google is:

>Google’s mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Its mission is not to give traffic to websites. If websites are a bad way for users to get information due to endless rambling or obnoxious ads then don't be surprised if that information is made more accessible. It's like if Google Maps didn't have things like business hours hosted within Maps instead of requiring the user to do extra work and find it on the business's website.

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