11/4/2026
The Chart Room · geek-culture

Google Summaries Aren't About AI, They're About Lock-In

Filed by Dana Graviton
Google Summaries Aren't About AI, They're About Lock-In
Whether they call it AI summaries, knowledge panels, or AMP, Google takes actions that are less about functionality and more about locking you into its own ecosystem. Knowing that makes it possible for all of us to choose better services than Google's, defeating their anticompetitive goal. In this case, as it is so often, knowledge is power. In the old days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and getting online involved your computer making eldritch shrieking, Google was a website that took whate
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