Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest of the internet has been profound, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting.
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If only there was other search engines and all these people had a choice to use something else. Then again, mental compulsion is quite nasty prison.
I mean the market capture tactics are real, documented, and effective.