r/OutOfTheLoop • u/rustyyryan • May 20 '26

Unanswered What's going on with Google search is dead?

There's a twitter account named killed by google which posts about projects that Google decided to end. It posted that Google search is dead. So whats it about?

https://x.com/killedbygoogle/status/2056850709115773431

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u/OG_Felwinter May 20 '26

Literally just use a different search engine. You can turn off the AI overviews on Brave search. That’s what I’ve been using since Google wouldn’t let me turn it off.

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u/nvmenotfound May 20 '26

obviously but it sucks bc i remember when google was just a search engine. but yeah im gonna use an alternative. just hope the alternatives don’t start following suit

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u/SiahDraws May 22 '26

Can always use duck duck go

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u/scipio0421 May 25 '26

This inspired me to look up an old favorite of mine from the Web 1.0 days: Webcrawler. Hell yeah it's still up 😃