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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:

Made this guy from my favorite Gerard Donelan comic

So let's talk about this bullshit.

Woke up to this message yesterday, but with the whole "he might push the button" insanity, I did not have the bandwidth to deal about this. But now it turns out that my Android phone has decided to make it the default to try and force me and all their other customers to utilized Google messages instead of continuing to provide a BASIC service of a phone.

Phones in the modern age are for 2 basic tasks: calling & texting. And you're telling me you can't manage that second basic function?

What's next? Gunna try and make me channel all my phone calls through Google calling? It'll be a cold day in hell before I allow that.

I'm already in the process of transfering all my e-mails & drive storage to Proton, for my business too. It's going to be messy and awful, but I'm not giving Google one more inch of my data than I have to and I'm certainly not going to subject myself to more of their FUCKING AI.

I have genuinely loved my 3 Galaxy Note phones. But I will never purchase another Samsung device if this decision is not reversed.

My waitlist is empty, so I’m ready to start on a new comm immediately. DM me if you’re interested

Much like my Spamton animation before I planned out the main story poses on my iPad. It’s a nice way to get ideas and keeps me away from my computer. Like I’ve said before, it’s hard to be on my computer after work hours. You just wanna get away from it.

Down side to this though is you don’t have instant playback of the audio, I would just play it in another tab now and again. When I imported the drawings into Toon Boom and started posing the rig I noticed some expressions were to strong, or some ideas didn’t really fit the rhythm of the dialogue as well as I would of liked.