I’m surprised nobody thought at this before. It was the fairly obvious outcome, inevitably this will lead to the collapse of the information environment we rely on, if nobody puts a stop to this. Ai doesn’t seem to care, neither improvements seem to target this. Small websites were already struggling, now they’re dying.
I switched to Kagi for this and they have “small web” and fediverse search.
They are a US based paid search engine and so far have not enshittified.
They’re one of the few US services I kept (low switching costs, low lock in, and a company I like) despite otherwise boycotting most other US products.
I’m surprised nobody thought at this before. It was the fairly obvious outcome, inevitably this will lead to the collapse of the information environment we rely on, if nobody puts a stop to this. Ai doesn’t seem to care, neither improvements seem to target this. Small websites were already struggling, now they’re dying.
People have been talking about it since Google debuted their instant answers years ago.
Nobody listened or cared.
It seems they’ve been deprioritised entirely, years ago i was able to find actual blogs and forums. But this is going to hit them even harder.
I switched to Kagi for this and they have “small web” and fediverse search.
They are a US based paid search engine and so far have not enshittified.
They’re one of the few US services I kept (low switching costs, low lock in, and a company I like) despite otherwise boycotting most other US products.
Literally everyone has been saying this the entire time.