The Google era has officially come to an end

Google is dying. Google is unstoppable. Somehow, both of those things now seem to be true. For the first time in over a decade, products are emerging that could challenge Google Search as the centerpiece of the web—including OpenAI’s recent SearchGPT. And yet, Google Search continues to dominate the market and make an incredible amount of money.

ON this episode Weather forecastwe discuss the launch of SearchGPT, Google’s latest gains, and the increasingly brazen ways AI companies are crawling the web for their own purposes. Who will win the future of search is anyone’s guess, but one thing is for sure: the way the web used to work isn’t working anymore. We need recent rules, recent norms, and recent ideas about what the web should look like.

If you want to learn more about what we cover in this episode, here are some links to get you started, starting with the future of search:

Here are the gadgets and reviews of the week:

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