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Google can make excuses for it. Anyone can make excuses for it. But the bottom line is this. When you ask Google Search on 29 May 2025:

"is it 2025?"

And AI replies:

"No, it is not 2025. The current year is 2024."

And Google is pushing this tech out into all their products and their CEO claims that AI may be more important than fire and electricity (really, Sundar? Really?) ... things are seriously going wrong at Google.

"…we later realized the really was about the type of website we are (i.e., and ). 
While gives large publishers an appeal and recovery process, small and independent publishers have no path to appeal our shadowbans. This is true even though Google admitted our shadowbans are its fault and not ours.
Though Google apologized, it also said that has permanently changed with and thus our may ."

https://travellemming.com/perspectives/ftc-letter-google-censors-indie-publishers-with-ai/

"Google isn’t satisfied with its monopoly on the questions we search.

Google wants to use AI to monopolize the very answers themselves.

As one Google executive recently explained: “Organizing information is clearly a trillion-dollar opportunity, but a trillion dollars is not cool anymore. What’s cool is a quadrillion dollars.”

Google plans to use AI to consume and replace the open web.

I believe demolishing independent sites like mine was Google’s first step in clearing ground so it has space to rebuild search from the ground up for an “AI-first” future.

Google envisions a future where “Google does the Googling for you,” its AI and ads do the answering – and users never need to leave Google.

Google will just source information from a handful of sources and partner websites that it controls and selects – effectively creating an information cartel.

If Google can use AI to censor a travel website …

Textgeneration: KI-Training mit geschützten Werken wird Fall für den EuGH

Im EuGH-Fall "Like Company vs. Google" aus Ungarn geht es um das Training von Chatbots mit Blick auf das EU-Leistungsschutzrecht und Text- und Data-Mining.

https://www.heise.de/news/Textgeneration-KI-Training-mit-geschuetzten-Werken-wird-Fall-fuer-den-EuGH-10419186.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

keeps telling sites that Search AI Overviews (and now the even far worse AI Mode) aren't hurting them. Sites see otherwise in their own stats. Google then says, "hey, don't worry so much about the stats, think about the overall user experience!" You mean the users that USED to click over? They're history. And you know it, Google.

MediaPost: Google Defeats Rumble Antitrust Suit . “A federal judge has dismissed conservative video platform Rumble’s claims that Google violated antitrust law by allegedly promoting YouTube in the search results, and by installing YouTube on Android devices. In a ruling issued last week, U.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam, Jr. in the Northern District of California said Rumble’s […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/28/mediapost-google-defeats-rumble-antitrust-suit/

Une fuite de données massive expose 184 millions de mots de passe pour Google, Microsoft, Facebook et d’autres services
https://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/une-fuite-de-donnees-massive-expose-184-millions-de-mots-de-passe-pour-google-microsoft-facebook-et-dautres-services-476013.htm

Le fichier n'était pas chiffré.

Le chercheur en cybersécurité Jeremiah Fowler a révélé une immense base de données en ligne contenant plus de 184 millions d'identifiants de comptes uniques. Noms d'utilisateur, mots de passe, adresses électroniques de comptes , , , , et … La base de données contenait également des identifiants de comptes bancaires…

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