What Google and Reddit's bad days have in common
Casey Newton's Platformer Plus column connects Google's worst-ever stock day with Reddit's 15% plunge to argue that AI search is breaking the old web bargain: AI mode monetizes worse than traditional search for Google, and it starves publishers like Reddit of traffic — yet Google will lik
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