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Google now offers ‘web’ search — and an AI opt-out button (www.theverge.com)
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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Google isn't just a search engine any more and hasn't been for nearly a decade. Over the years it has slowly become humanity's general-purpose information indexer. That includes the Web but it's restricted to it. Add in some advertising and that's Google.