Web’s End

The Pew Research Center recently released a study showing that the AI summaries that appear on top of Google search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites. This has potentially calamitous implications for news sites, which have already been hobbled by tech company middlemen in other ways.

If you have the time, you might check out this video from More Perfect Union on why Google searches suck now (the third panel of this comic was partly inspired by it, in addition to my own frustrations doing research for cartoons or anything else these days).

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