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Here's a digital copy of it, along with a plaintext version, prepared-to-bind version, and the cover.

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 companies won't warn anybody. They won't post anything, one day it's just gone.

You don't notice. You've never used chadblt or any of the others, so you go about your day like any other.

But slowly, the wave of hysteria reaches you. People are losing their shit. They are having legit panic attacks, because everything they used to do they can't do anymore. Social media and news websites flooded with cries of absolute devastation.

People are heartbroken because they used ai as boyfriend or girlfriend substitute. Tons of people lose their jobs, because their bosses suddenly realise that they are crap at what they do once they can't use ai anymore. All those thousands of job postings of ai prompter? These people are all useless now. Their bosses realising how dumb they were to hire someone just to ask a machine that didn't belong to them questions.

For a couple of weeks, people spiral into a collective meltdown. You get to watch it all from the sidelines. It's better than fandom drama. Adult people, who would scoff at ship wars, are now screaming hysterically because the machine they used to ask how to make a latte macchiato deactivated all of a sudden.

A couple weeks later? All forgotten. AI craze what? Life returns to normal.

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