GOGGLES: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web Brave Search Team

A sense of dread as I see this. We are slowly seeing the end of the open web. - AI search powered experiences take away clicks from high quality publishers in aggregate + - Crawlbots from AI companies not playing by the rules leading to - High quality publishers are looking to get paid *now* for "the value of their data" to compensate for traffi... See more

But the informational value of the web has been nearly destroyed. Fake News isn’t even the biggest problem. It’s the digital ecosystem’s insistence on stifling curiosity by prioritizing ANSWERS over questions.

Most impactfully, the web has been systematically re-engineered to hinder discovery in order to drive people as quickly as possible to comme... See more