May 20
Google officially killing its search engine in 2026 really is just the prime example of the direction of technology in general at this stage. What started as a simple search engine is blowing up the simple search engine because it's not hip and cool enough. Data tracking is literally being advertised as a feature.
At the cost of functionality, innovation must go on to the point where the plot has been utterly lost and/or shot out back. This is the rule of technology.