Tech: Do Google searches w/o AI 'results' on page

Subject: BS: clickie free search engines - WTF?
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 May 25 - 03:10 AM

A video recently reported there are AI driven search engines out there that do not proffer clickies.

It is noticeable that Yahoo has a section apparently answering your question as the first response. And Edge has a button called "Copilot" for the same kind of thing.

My concern is that this will only increase. With what is commonly referred to as AI (ie LLMs) as the "engine".

How can you trust something that does not declare its source? At least the traditional SE results declared "paid for" results and anyway the URL gives away some clues for you to assess the veracity of anything behind a particular clickie. And as the web fills up with "stuff" generated by LLMs put there by lazy/agenda driven idiots - all we will see is bubbles and polarisation.

As is the way - it will become de facto.

Are you ready for this latter day lunatic asylum?

Subject: RE: BS: clickie free search engines - WTF?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 30 May 25 - 09:18 AM

Free is just another word for nothing left to hide
    You're the product when the product's free
A billion happy lemmings all committing privicide
    Silence is the only way for me
    To avoid the eye of Pherret McGee.

(That's only the first chorus. I've never sung the entirety of it in public.)

Subject: RE: Tech: Do Google searches w/o AI 'results' on page
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 09 Oct 25 - 09:24 PM

Google is abruptly changing the game for journalism — again ... After years of being courted by tech companies and encouraged to provide content optimised for their platforms and websites, news sites are increasingly finding themselves locked out and denied access to their users.
This is sometimes presented as a media industry issue, as a story about news sites outflanked by changing technology.

But it's about much more than that. News sites are the canaries in the coalmine.

This is about the biggest change to the web in 20 years, one that will affect how you access information and what you read and watch...

... The two best examples of this trend are the choices made by Meta and Google to sideline news site content and referrals.

Just under a decade ago, Meta abruptly changed its algorithm to show less news content on the main feed, beginning a process that culminated a year ago, when it announced it no longer wanted any news content.

Now it looks like Google is doing something similar.

Google has built an AI model partly trained on news content (which it initially took for free, without asking) that's able to answer many user queries and therefore avoid having to direct them to the sites themselves.

As a result, search traffic to news sites appears to be tanking.

This week, Google went one step further, rolling out the advanced search tool AI Mode to Australian users, which will further sideline news sites and embed the shift from "search engine" to "answer engine" ... (read on)