Google is dead. Where do we go now?

Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by frmersdog on Monday December 29, 2025 @07:22PM (#46427915)

AI is not and cannot be search. Search is dead and has been for a few years now. Search has seemingly been subsumed into the LLM monster, considering how "fuzzy" queries have become (probably because they're not hitting the search algorithm without being massaged by "something else"). Significant portions of the web have been purged from Google's index, which means that neither Gemini nor Search can present those pages to users.

It's over. Sorry.

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Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by esseph on Monday December 29, 2025 @07:39PM (#46428055)

When people say "search is dead", I feel like you and I live on different planets.

If I have a Google idea of what I want, Google search works great. On the rare occasion I don't know the specific thing I'm looking for, Gemini points the way.

It had never ever been easier for me to find what I'm looking for on the internet, since 1993-1994.

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Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by discordance on Monday December 29, 2025 @09:44PM (#46428927)

Search -> click on website -> read website to find the information you wanted; is dead/dying.

I agree that paradigm is over and using Google search feels antiquated. It’s not a good outcome for website owners, but I want info retrieval.

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Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by frmersdog on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @10:46AM (#46434465)

I believed these sorts of statements a few years ago, but not anymore. Results were hit-and-miss enough to give the benefit-of-the-doubt. They're now so bad that I assume bad faith, either on the part of the speaker or Google.

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