This public statement comes from Sameer Samat, the “President of Android Ecosystem” at Google. He was commenting on a mockup circulating on social media that showed Android with a glass UI – which in turn was in response to a teaser video in which the Android mascot turns on the light and then becomes transparent. Although Samat refers the alleged plans to the realm of fantasy, the Android rumor mill is still certain that at least more transparent elements will be seen in future system versions.
AI search gets expert advice – and more source information
The AI search in Google, which makes visiting websites unnecessary for many users and thus leads to pages dying, will soon have new functions. Google announced that it wanted to enrich the results with “Expert Advice”. These are quotes from social media, Reddit or specialist magazines that complement the respective topic. The following example can be found in the blog entry:
Collected forum/editorial statements on the requested topic
This means that there should be even fewer reasons for Google users to go to the respective websites from which the content originally comes. Another announced function, namely more details about the cited providers, is unlikely to change this. Although the company emphasizes that AI searches are always just the beginning, further research must then be carried out on the portals – but web statistics speak a completely different language here. An article looked at this in more detail last year: “How AI search is changing the web and driving sites into ruin.”