Google, Generative Search, And The Web’s Uncertain Future

Digging through a bunch of websites to find information is annoying, but we’re in trouble if the primary sources go away.

The demo was beautiful. At Google’s IO developer conference this week, the company showed an experimental version of its search engine handling an almost unimaginably difficult query. Asked whether a family with kids under three years old and a dog would prefer Arches National Park or Bryce Canyon, Google scoured the internet and returned a lengthy, det…