{"id":962581,"date":"2025-09-18T11:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962581"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:41:26","slug":"cloudflare-ceo-matthew-prince-says-ai-has-ruined-internet-search-engine-days-are-long-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/18\/cloudflare-ceo-matthew-prince-says-ai-has-ruined-internet-search-engine-days-are-long-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI has ruined internet: Search engine days are long gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) is ruining the internet. During a recent interview, he said that the days of search engines being &#8220;the dominant interface of the web&#8221; are &#8220;long gone.&#8221; Speaking on the WIRED Big Interview Podcast, Prince expressed his concerns about a near-term dystopian AI scenario. He said: \u201cNow, if you run a search, it gives you back an answer at the top of the page. It doesn\u2019t give you a treasure map. Instead, it provides you with what they call an AI Overview, which has taken a whole bunch of content, smashed it together, summarised it in various ways, and synthesised it.\u201d Prince also noted AI is not a search engine but an \u201canswer engine,\u201d and it does not generate traffic, which is essential for funding the work of internet content creators such as researchers, writers, and journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) is ruining the internet. During a recent interview, he said that the days of search engines being &#8220;the dominant interface of the web&#8221; are &#8220;long gone.&#8221; Speaking on the WIRED Big Interview Podcast, Prince expressed his concerns about a near-term dystopian AI scenario. He said: \u201cNow, if you run a search, it gives you back an answer at the top of the page. It doesn\u2019t give you a treasure map. Instead, it provides you with what they call an AI Overview, which has taken a whole bunch of content, smashed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}