Google is about to turn the online publishing industry upside down

Google announced a number of new features at its annual developer conference in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday, including new writing tools in Gmail and immersive directions in Google Maps. But there was one announcement that didn’t get much attention outside of tech circles. And it’s arguably the most radical change the internet has seen since Google became the biggest search engine on the planet in the early 2000s.

The company plans to change the way it presents search engine results by using artificial intelligence. And, at the risk of overstating the potential consequences, it will be like dropping a nuclear bomb on an online publishing industry that’s already struggling to survive. READ MORE