Step 1: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

[ascyltos@akkoma.ascyltos.social]

@isotopp mmmm, a tasty exponentially more compute spent for google to provide the same results it did previously

[karolherbst@chaos.social]

@isotopp new browser extension idea: prompt inject websites to revert to old pre "AI" behavior...

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@isotopp

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@isotopp So how long until Google discontinues Google Search completely & they only have their LLM?

[clergyman@infosec.exchange]

@isotopp Step 2: Stop trying to fix a product that the company intentionally broke. Switch to something else already.

(in no particular order)

• search.brave.com
• noai.duckduckgo.com
• mojeek.com
• qwant.com
• ecosia.org
• oceanhero.today
• kagi.com ($)
• searxng (self-host)

[greatquux@mastodon.social]

@isotopp @ernie tagging Ernie to update udm14 article

[tbodt@mastodon.social]

@mathew @isotopp https://udm14.com still works

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@clergyman @isotopp whoosh

[larsmb@mastodon.online]

@jackemled @isotopp Google PM sunsetting a stable product because it doesn't grow exponentially anymore?

That seems ridiculous and never happens.

[nuthatch@infosec.exchange]

@ratsnakegames @clergyman @isotopp classic mastodon tho

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@larsmb @isotopp You're absolutely right. It has never happened to Google Hangouts, Google+, Chromecast, Google Play Music, or Google Stadia. These products are still available today. I won't make this mistake again.

This reply was not machine generated. I just thought it was funny.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@isotopp Watch them fix this prompt connection by the end of today.

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@isotopp LMAO

[tarheel@mstdn.io]

@isotopp

Just need a gemini.md in the root of your Google drive and you're set!

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@isotopp @briankrebs just another “guardrail” for them to implement.

(But beautiful in the interim.)

[leadegroot@bne.social]

@isotopp @AmeliaBR and then you make a bookmarklet to do that
(But i wonder if the links are hallucinated )

[faoluin@chitter.xyz]

@isotopp This is cyber seppuku isn't it?

[linkachus17@furry.engineer]

@isotopp

[heptasean@social.tchncs.de]

@isotopp Funny but still very unsure if it _actually_ does what is prompted or just simulates doing it. In any case, it burns a ridiculous amount of unnecessary additional resources for doing it.

[unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz]

@isotopp

The links and extracts might not be real though. Or the links might be real but the extracts not.