And where is the ship headed if they are no longer supporting the open web?

Publishers are being squeezed and going under, or replacing humans with hallucinated genai slop.

It’s like we’re taking the private equity model of extracting value and killing something off to the entire web.

I’m not sure where this is headed, but I don’t think Sundar has any strategy here other than playing catch up.

Demis’ goal is pretty transparently positioning himself to take over.