Yeah, you're not the only one to notice this. Cory Doctorow wrote a long post on it just earlier today: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/absentee-landlord/

Yeah, you're not the only one to notice this. Cory Doctorow wrote a long post on it just earlier today: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/absentee-landlord/ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/absentee-landlord/ We're increasingly in a post-Google-Search world. Pay for Kagi or use an LLM. Honestly, I find that Sol-5.6-Medium returns much better results than Google, and it's quicker because it sorts them for you.