Why the web doesn't need humans anymore

Why does Google feel different? It isn't just AI, let's follow the money... You look for a specific but instead of a solution, you get corporate bs with Reddit threads, Forbes... It feels like the library has been replaced by a shopping mall where every book is written by a marketing committee. This isn’t a technical failure. 1. The Engineering of "Good Enough" One of the most chilling discovery of the last two years didn't come from a lab, but from a courtroom. Internal emails from the US v. Google antitrust trial revealed a fundamental civil war inside the company. Ben Gomes, the engineer who helped build Google’s reputation for quality, warned that the company was becoming "too close to the money." The data suggests they realized they could make the results slightly worse, forcing users to search longer. It’s a "Boiling the Frog" strategy where the goal isn't to find you the best answer, but to keep you in the ecosystem until you settle for "good enough". 2. The Death of the Indepen