8: Google

Google just made search feel like magic The future was written in fiction decades before Silicon Valley caught up. ....... something fancy called “multimodal search,” powered by Google Lens. Basically, the system doesn’t just look at an object—it understands the full scene. Shapes, colors, materials, even how stuff relates to each other. .......... Behind the scenes, it fires off a bunch of queries (Google calls this “query fan-out”) to bring you smarter answers than your usual link list. ..........

This update comes as Google tries to keep up with the cool kids: ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, and other AI-first engines that are eating traditional search alive.

....... This isn’t just a flex this is Google trying to make search feel human again. You won’t just search anymore. You’ll talk to your curiosity. And your photos? They’ll finally talk back. ........ Google’s new AI Overviews—automated answers stitched together from sites like hers. People stop clicking. Sites stop earning. ........ Bloomberg spoke to dozens of creators. Same story: traffic’s vanished. Some saw 70% drops. Others had to shut down. ........

now, AI answers often replace the content, not link to it.

........ Behind closed doors, they’ve admitted the shift is real—but no one’s promising a fix. ....... Smaller publishers say they’re being squeezed out in favor of big names and forums like Reddit or YouTube. ....... Google built its empire on other people’s content. Now it’s serving it back with fewer crumbs for the ones who made it. That’s not innovation. That’s cannibalism with a friendly UI.

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