A startling statistic from Google’s antitrust trial raises fears that a long-predicted decline has now begun
Source: Stats from a dying web
fta: which i disagree with. the unprotected raw dog web is unreadable due to advertising. as good as always with adblockers, and dns black holes (PiHole, AdGuard, etc?); should do a contrasting the differences video.
Here are Emma Roth and Lauren Feiner at The Verge:
Google searches fell in Safari for the first time ever last month, Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, said during Google’s antitrust trial on Wednesday. “That has never happened in 22 years,” Cue added.
Cue linked the dip in searches to the growing use of AI, which Apple is now considering integrating into Safari. The rise of web search in AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot may make users less inclined to visit Google as their primary way of finding information.
