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Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 00:00:06 JST Paul Cantrell

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116605858023186072
Google Search rests on a social contract: their bots can crawl our sites, they can index our sites, and they can show excerpts of our sites because
and •only because•
they send people to our sites. •Our• sites, our words, with our design, with our links, with our context and our aesthetics, shared the way we want to share them.
Google is announcing — unambiguously and with great fanfare — that are fully breaking that contract. We should reciprocate.
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  In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters. Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others. This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information. If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.
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  datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 00:18:40 JST datarama
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  @inthehands As I said just a while ago: Every big tech press event these last few years have felt like "Announcing our exciting plans for oligarchs to strip-mine the entire world and immiserate all of humanity! Get on board, and also death to the unbelievers!"
  
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  Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 02:28:12 JST Paul Cantrell
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  “search engine nopetimization”
  
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  Erik (letterror@typo.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 02:28:13 JST Erik
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  @inthehands I guess “Search Engine Optimisation” has gained a new, contrary meaning.
  
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  davecb (davecb@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 09:14:25 JST davecb
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  @inthehands Google? Blocked.
  
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  davecb (davecb@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 19:24:19 JST davecb
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  @inthehands It's admittedly in its early days, but @scottgal is finishing up the production release of "stylobot", https://www.stylobot.net/
  Code and articles at https://github.com/scottgal/stylobot
  This is me being recognized as a boring human:
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