Google is testing a homepage without a Search button

Source: Search Engine Watch.

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Arghblarg@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 23d (1 reply)
victorz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23d

Quant, Ecosia, Kagi

schmorpel@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 23d (1 reply)

'So what does this do?'

'It's a search engine that doesn't search.'

'So ... like a car that can't drive? Innovative, I love it!'

Waves of applause in the meeting room.

(How I imagine the maladaptive daydreams of whoever runs IT companies these days)

kvadd@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d

No no. The car can drive, it just spontaneously crash in to stuff every once in a while. No big deal, just ship it.

Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 23d

Isn't that what the "enter" button on your keyboard is for? Or does that not work either.

Dirk@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 23d

Fuck AI.

remon@ani.social · 4 pts · 23d (2 replies)

Wait, people still go to search engine's hompages? You know you can search from the address bar in your browser, right?

TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social · 2 pts · 23d (1 reply)

Eh DDG is my homepage, so yeah I often do just type in the search bar. Whichever the cursor is on, really. No preference.

What do people use as a homepage?

remon@ani.social · 6 pts · 23d

What do people use as a homepage?

I guess the "new tab" page for the half a second before I type something into the top bar?

grandel@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 23d

Sucks for Google users I guess

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 23d (1 reply)

Mark my words: they will make every search be an prompt until people stop visiting websites all together. Websites will become nothing but data sources for LLMs and all of the attention and hence ad revenue that is currently decentralised among websites will be consolidated by Google and its AI.

TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social · 2 pts · 23d

We need to build a data wall. Keep out the corpos.