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Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

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“I figured that I could always fall back to those blue links to get a relatively unadulterated experience. Now, I have to wonder.”

When the last neutral layer goes, what's left is the people you chose to follow.

I've been sitting with that thought while building https://murmel.social

Is this like social Ground News?

More like what Nuzzel used to be back in the day: https://web.archive.org/web/20140321102815/http://nuzzel.com...

Cool. Anything different from https://sill.social?

I think this post sums it up pretty well: https://preslav.me/2026/03/25/murmel-competition-identity-tr...

I can see this being a net benefit if it's limited to re-writing clickbait headlines.

> if it's limited to re-writing clickbait headlines

It's already not so limited:

"sometimes changing their meaning in the process."

"It almost sounds like we’re endorsing a product we do not recommend at all."

I hate clickbait headlines but I disagree. Let a site succeed or fail based on their choices. If they want to use clickbait headlines they won’t get my clicks.

Rewriting headlines feels like a fundamental break in the contract of a search engine.

I mean HN modifies headlines all the time. Sometimes hours after the fact. News sites themselves A/B test headlines constantly. I don't really think there is any "contract" to speak of.

There is a massive difference between a specific website changing things (even an aggregator), and a search engine.

And that sucks. I don't want the paternalistic thought policing.

This has been going on for at least three years, although perhaps they left more popular sites like The Verge alone. My wife's business rebranded three years ago and they kept the old brand as part of the title, presumably because there were lots of links pointing to it with the old title.

https://archive.ph/VKgxt

Hmm, needed with fancy AI ready information

Whole google is AI now

Its A1 all the way down.

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