Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

The popular icon family "cappuccicons" was abandoned a while back. More recently (within the past few months), the website that hosted it vanished. Even more recently (within the past few weeks or days) that website has been taken over / replaced, and blogs that use cappuccicons are now redirecting people to shady sites with a risk of malware.

To check if your blog or pages have been affected, just go to your true desktop blog: [blogname].tumblr.com (mine is memento-morri-writes.tumblr.com). If it loads normally, you're fine! If it starts redirecting you elsewhere (aka, if you see the address in the address bar change), close the tab immediately!

Fear not!! It's an easy fix! If your blog is affected, you just need to open the code of your blog or page theme and delete this line:

As for replacing your missing icons (which would have been missing for weeks/months anyways), it's very simple, even if you have no coding experience! It essentially boils down to 1) Find a set of icons (I've used Phosphor and FontAwesome.), 2) copy the provided script into the top of your page/blog code (where you deleted the cappuccicons script from), and then 3) replacing the icon names in the code with the names of whatever icons you want from your chosen icon family.

Feel free to send me an ask or DM if you need more detailed instructions!

TUMBLR ADS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO AUTO-PLAY AUDIO! THAT IS A BUG AND YOU SHOULD REPORT IT!

"This ad is auto-playing audio" is literally on the drop down menu for reporting an ad. Tumblr isn't trying to implement this! Don't protest this "new policy", cause it's not one.

Report the broken ads.

That’s like… really stupid of me. Right?

That’s like… really stupid of me. Right?

But today i couldnt because my voice was destroyed. Partially because of allergies and because I talked about the Bible ALL DAY LONG with my coworker.

I have a job interview pray that I will have a voice peas.