Consciously depraved and incredibly fun.

by Ellen Bass

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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:

don't know if we're getting a stream for "b-stage" so here's mainstage! ill add anything else we get

Mainstage

Pre-show rumors that the Gentleman’s chair is onstage (people are inferring a live Gentleman appearance)

Died 2025 Born 2026 Welcome back shitty festival streams meaning we don’t get any info. Please bear with me

The return of Tonight You Belong to Me as the pre-show song

Return of the twin soldiers bringing the wheat on. Seems to be fully back to NorthAm. Specifically that of Shaky Knees

Original outfits, Charlie back as the Clerk

No clock in

Gentleman chair confirmed!

None of them cut their hair. I know this is very important to y’all

“Where I’ve never been!” Snippet of Gerard’s speech after Dead! Before the stream cut

Dictator onstage!! In a wheelchair

The night’s ad read, rough transcript: If anyone is driving a beige mercury villager license plate ending in 26T as in Thomas, your headlights are on. your car is probably gonna run out of battery

Another small snippet from podium time: “YOU’VE GOT DIRT! ON!...”

Slap is back with a pre-slap argument (short clip)

Short clip from Dagger bit: “It’s so nice to be here… tonight… now I’ll tell you a story, I was in New York City, and I needed a cab, because…”

We got ten whole seconds of Sleep! Ray was EXPLODING all over it. Killed it. “At the end of the day!” (guitars)

Jacket is being forced back on (with twin soldiers)

Back to Quizzo visuals

“Our time has come” speech returns

Stream still isn’t working but we have one clip of mikey and g together while the crowd screams flw. Life is worth living