For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline” (with regard to advertising, kinda-sorta)

  • willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    More like Google/Alphabet is doing what it can to close up the net, and hopes that openness on the net goes into decline.