So it’s looking like Google AI Mode may become the default option of searching — replacing the traditional search model with generative AI search that scrapes a whole host of webpages to craft an answer.

Yes, Google lead product manager Logan Kilpatrick did walk this back a little, saying that "more AI Mode responses and functionality" are coming to AI Overviews — rather than a straight up replacement. But given how this experiment continues to expand at a lightning pace, it wouldn't surprise me if this was the ultimate mission.

Of course, I could go into the huge risk this poses to the ways people find information online, or how this could severely damage the amount of traffic websites that rely on Google search get (using tactics known as SEO).

But I want to look at it a different way

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