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Interestingly enough all of the examples you presented sound like they were each actually an improvement for the user (don't have to click the link, google shows me the info in the search result, don't have to go to google, safari showing me the answer in the search suggestions). If this where this is going we should celebrate, not mourn.

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Is it an improvement to get stuff for free without having to work for it? Sure, why not. But that's not how a society can function.

> destroys the market for people to publish jokes about fishing

Yet for some reason, I bet there were fish jokes long before fish markets. The ad revenue may disappear, but the jokes will not.

Also, several open source projects make our society function that don't have a good business model. Or maybe they do now, but wouldn't have started if the author had worried about it.

But a lot of these SEO content farms that google/apple "streamlined" away added no actual value, they just tried to game their way towards being the top answer for "how tall was Abraham Lincoln". If they weren't there the answer would still be available on the internet (maybe in 50 duplicates instead of 5000) & google would have found it just as well.

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