By Katie Notopoulos
Publication Date: 2026-05-21 15:23:00
Google is about to ruin the internet.
And I love the internet. I love websites. I love sending links to my friends. I spend nearly my entire workday looking at various Chrome tabs. I enjoy looking at websites I’ve never looked at before.
All of that is going to change with Google’s new search updates, which lean into AI-generated answers. Its plans gave me an awful sinking feeling.
The big change will be to integrate AI even more into search — instead of typing in a few keywords and getting a list of links, Google will spit out more AI-powered answers to questions and personalized requests (I’ll explain more in a bit.)
When a Big Tech company gives a demonstration of a new product, you’ve always got to look at it with some skepticism, so let’s take this with at least a grain of salt: But Google, this week, said its new features would let an AI agent send you updates whenever your favorite athletes launch a new sneaker, for instance. (I am not…