The Death Knell of Digital Search

–The New Yorker 

Companies such as Google used to be our portals to the rest of the web. Can the internet as we know it survive when A.I. answers all of our questions? Lately, I've been having trouble finding stuff in my Gmail inbox. The Search function has become overzealous, jumping to summarize my conversations using artificial intelligence and skipping the actual addresses I'm attempting to search. It's not just e-mail accounts, though; search is in crisis everywhere.