Google is dying. Google is unstoppable. Somehow, right now, it feels like both of those things are true. For the first time in more than a decade, there are products appearing that could actually threaten Google Search as the center of the web. OpenAI’s new SearchGPT. And yet Google Search continues to dominate and truly create the market. An incredible amount of money.

On This incident of Vergecastwe search GPT release, Google’s latest earnings, and Faster brazen ways AI companies are scraping the web for their own purposes. Who will win the future of search is anyone’s guess, but one thing is certain: the way the web used to work doesn’t work anymore. We need new rules, new norms, and new ideas about what the Internet should be like.

If you want to learn more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get started with the future of search:

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