[kredd]

It’s a bit weird since Google is taking over the “burden of proof”-like liability. Up until now, once user clicked on a search result, they mentally judged the website’s credibility, not Google’s. Now every user will judge whether data coming from Google is reliable or not, which is a big risk to take on, in my opinion.

[shombaboor]

they went from "look at this dumbass on reddit" to "no it is I (Google) who is in fact the dumbass". It's an interesting strategy to say the least.

[seadan83]

That latter point might be illuminating for a number of additional ideas. Specifically, should people have questioned Google's credibility from the start? Ie: these are the search results, vs this is what google chose.

Google did well in the old days for reasons. It beat alta vista and Yahoo by having better search results and a clean loading page. Since perhaps 08 (based on memory, that date might be off) or so, Google has dominated search, to the extent that it's not salient that search engines can be really questionable. Which is also to say, google dominated, people lost sight that searching and googling are different, that gives a lot of freedom for enshittification without people getting too upset or even quite realizing - it could be different and better

[seadan83]

My point was not well stated. My hope is that if people learn to question AI summaries, they might also learn to question the rest of the search page.