Google declares the end of the World Wide Web

Google unveiled a redesigned home page at its I/O developer conference that demotes traditional web search results to a submenu, replacing link lists with pull-out boxes, apps and AI-generated content. The article says the web has become a legacy format, comparable to the DVD. It traces the web's early promise of cheap publishing to the mid-1990s and notes that Chris Anderson declared the web "dead" in 2010. It also cites Meredith Whittaker, Google's former research director, who calls AI summaries "derivative content paste" that can introduce errors and "hallucinations".