Brian Barrett

It's just, it feels more like it's here than it has in a while because there's sort of this like general like AI overviews, but no, now AI overviews the whole thing.

Yeah, I'm sure.

I think that in the same way that a lot of people don't love AI overviews and have been begging for a way to turn it off and haven't really had an easy way to do it, I think that's going to be the same thing.

But there's also not much you can do about it.

Google's very clearly committed to this.

It's clearly how they want the web to work.

What I worry about even more than...

That, like Google's bottom line, is something, again, it's the sort of same themes but accelerated.

The idea that once you sort of stop going to websites and once you stop, once it's only agents, only bots are visiting websites, you're choking off the supply of information, right?

You are, you know, smaller publishers.

Exactly.

So you, like, the web itself kind of shriveled up into a Google-shaped hole.

Every six years, someone decides micropayments are going to save journalism.

I'm going to pull this back from implications for us and focus again on the broader implications because there's one other part.

There were a lot of announcements today.

Search to me was the biggest one.

I'll say too, like Google has announced big changes before and then like not actually gotten there and not gotten nowhere in the way that they initially proposed.

So there's a little bit of an asterisk next to a lot of this.

I think it's probably mostly coming though.

But they also announced something called Gemini Spark, which I just want to talk about very briefly.