The New Google Home Page [Google I/O]

[ruinbruin]

When does this go live?

[Fit_Cheesecake_4000]

What, so you can ask their AI Overview that has a decent chance of being wrong to supply more wrong information?

[Emergency-Currency63]

I’m switching to Bing

[rondoandthegang]

Curious what this does to local search.

[Philluminati]

1. Google indexes all the websites data
2. Google builds an AI model from the websites
3. Google answers questions for users without needing to go to the websites
4. Websites stop receiving visits, get less ad-revenue
5. Websites turned off
6. Google is the only company that retains the information.
7. AI become the only tools that can answer questions, receive undue praise + deeper integration.

AI won’t go down in quality if websites are removed because Google won’t be removing deleted websites from its training data.

[ratthew]

I’m really curious how this plays out. Sounds like even less traffic to actual websites. Who’s still going to publish anything and allow indexing if Google just steals the data outright? 

[EverbodyHatesHugo]

Is this slide created by AI? The two callouts at the top right are exactly the same.

[BobArdKor]

Thanks, I hate it.

[Brando1788]

What is the incentive to post novel content anymore? Sure Google has massive database now of content up to now, but why would anyone host anything interesting on a website moving forward?

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[mayazir]

Google stole our traffic.

[Kishan_Vaishnani]

Woho!!!! I seen that news some days ago and I posted on my LinkedIn also along with what Google will change the things….

Google’s new homepage direction honestly feels less like a search engine and more like a personal AI assistant interface.

For years the homepage was built around:
“Type keywords, get links.”

Now it feels closer to:
“Ask anything, get synthesized answers, follow up conversationally.”

The interesting part is not the design change itself. It’s what it signals about user behavior. Google clearly sees people moving away from traditional search journeys toward AI assisted exploration.

Feels like we’re watching the homepage evolve from a gateway to the web into a gateway to Google’s interpretation of the web.

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[Lucker_Noob]

You forgot a step or two:

1. Google indexes all the websites data
2. Google builds an AI model from the websites
3. Google answers questions for users without needing to go to the websites
4. Websites stop receiving visits, get less ad-revenue
5. Websites turned off
6. **No one pays Google for ads since websites are dead and Google now competes with 10 other AIs for prompt traffic**
7. **Providing AI answers is prohibitively expensive, as evidenced by current unsustainable 2+trillion in capital expenses**
8. **Google goes bankrupt.**
9. **With Google having committed suicide and AI bubble bursting, websites resume activity and compete on a variety of classic search engines, same as before Google monopoly**
10. **???**
11. **PROFIT**

[the_ai_wizard]

we need a replacement, and have for a while. google is trash