Artificial intelligence summaries are the final step in Google Search's cannabalisation of the open web.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/29/arsonist-firefighters/#im-feeling-lucky
'in its role as the web's most important gatekeeper, Google remade them as an ad-festooned cesspit of garbage text and cynical shovelware sites. Now Google proposes to wipe out the publishers whose content they stripmined by breaking the web's bargain: that search engines are symbiotic with publishers. Google has turned fully parasitic, sucking the last drops of juice out of the open web before discarding its husk.'
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