On Google declaring war on the Web

I am not fond of when in Google I/O 2026, they announced a new kind of “searching” based on “agentic browsing” experience, which sounds kinda confused for most normal people. Techbros and AI-obsessed people still hype them up though.

This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google’s abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It’s about monopolizing access to information. A true Metaverse unbound by open standards and your ability to build your own corner of the web according to your needs and desires. Which – given how strong Google’s influence is on web standards – will change the shape of the standards for the technological landscape we are building the web on.