Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
Most importantly, note that by stopping people from going to websites and thus cutting into website ad revenue Google is also undermining its own profits, and effectively destroying its own long-time business model.
So it can only be the case that they intend to switch to an entirely different business model.
Ask yourself what that might be.
Add in the AI scraping of essentially the entire internet and the otherwise inexplicable investment of billions of dollars into data centers that dont appear to have a path to profitability.
Then, again, ask yourself what their new business model might be.
Most importantly, note that by stopping people from going to websites and thus cutting into website ad revenue Google is also undermining its own profits, and effectively destroying its own long-time business model.
So it can only be the case that they intend to switch to an entirely different business model.
Ask yourself what that might be.
Add in the AI scraping of essentially the entire internet and the otherwise inexplicable investment of billions of dollars into data centers that dont appear to have a path to profitability.
Then, again, ask yourself what their new business model might be.