Google is binning links from search results in favour of ‘conversational’ AI answers, if you were wondering whether the internet could get worse
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It sounds more like a shift that will reduce traffic to Google
— Barbarossa⚡️ (@barbarossa69.bsky.social) 19 May 2026 at 20:56
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— The Guillotine Implier (@impliedchoppy.bsky.social) 19 May 2026 at 21:52
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You’ve probably seen posts before, about somebody who rented a house, transformed it; redid the garden to make it grow, painted the walls and turned it into a home. And then suddenly the landlord wanted it back, and kicked the tenant out.
Google is that landlord.
— Ben Darlow (@kapowaz.net) 20 May 2026 at 09:32
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time to bring back little links to other sites we like
— TAHK0 (@tahk0.bsky.social) 20 May 2026 at 09:42
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*Googles “Better search engines than Google.”*
— The Card (@thecard.bsky.social) 20 May 2026 at 09:27
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bro just tell me where the fucking mcdonalds is
— Jimmy Eat Arby's (@dankpasta.bsky.social) 20 May 2026 at 09:12
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RIP the verb “to google”. Nobody asked for this
— Dorian Lynskey (@dorianlynskey.bsky.social) 19 May 2026 at 21:29
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You luddite fools and your expectations that your "search" function will actually efficiently "search" for things
— Odd Future Wolfgang Pauli (@ofwp.bsky.social) 19 May 2026 at 22:38
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Google: ‘We’re Completing The Destruction Of Search For Reasons Unclear Even To Us, And We’re Taking Everyone Down With It’
— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo.com) 19 May 2026 at 20:45
It’s more like a last straw than a quantum leap.
google has been trash for years now
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