I can’t get over how different Google is from the 1999 company that offered web users a qualitatively better search engine than what they’d been used to with portals. I know Sergey Brin is into AI now, but I wonder what Larry Page makes of 2025-Google search, and how bad for users and publishers alike it is. https://cybercultural.com/p/google-1999/ https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/114904206348867968