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Live tension Google ai open web Building & implementation · 4 attributable reactions

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Google ai open web

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Dare Obasanjo

“"Some website operators are crying fowl." Some. Like, f'rinstance The New York Times? Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...” evidence ↗

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Data & Society Taylor Lorenz Kashmir Hill Christopher Mims kate conger nilay patel Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis Dare Obasanjo +1

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Building & implementation

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“"Some website operators are crying fowl." Some. Like, f'rinstance The New York Times? Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...”

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“As web searches are increasingly performed by AI chatbots, the number of people visiting websites is falling. It's a change that poses a serious threat to the open web. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...”

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“Long ago, Yelp complained that Google was hurting its business by surfacing information from Yelp in Google searches such that people stopped visiting Yelp. (Lawsuit over this ongoing.) With AI mode, the rest of the web is now feeling Yelp's pain: www.nytim…”

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2 experts · 5 posts · 11d ago

Christopher Mims Dan Greene

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“In theory that's what the frontiers are for: make cheaper big innovations that other people turn into practical, even cheaper applications (similar dynamics in electrification and machine tooling l…” evidence ↗

Dan Greene : This is basically the Jeff Ding case: real, pervasive adoption depends on end-users taking cheaper tools and figuring out profitable use cases in their specific domains. Which is not the moonshot/A…

Dan Greene : I feel like that's a timing issue. There's a world where OAI shrinks and gets fully acquired by Microsoft, Anthropic IPOs, and the action shifts to applications that use MS or Anthropic or whatever…

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