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Posted May 21, 2026 by Matthias Ott in Notes Ad Infinitum At Google I/O this week, the company announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years. The ten blue links? Gone. Instead, you get — first at times? soon always? — “generative UI”, an “intelligent search box” with custom interactive widgets, built on the fly by Gemini. You get “information agents” that monitor the web for you around the clock. You get mini-apps you can build right inside the search box, using natural language. And with Gemini Spark, you get a personal AI agent that runs 24/7, connected to your Gmail, your Drive, your calendar, your photos, and soon your... #google #AI #advertising #web #search #privacy 390 Webmentions
Posted May 7, 2026 by Matthias Ott in Notes Lazy and Prompt Chrome 148 shipped this week, and in the release notes you’ll find one of the best things to happen to web performance in a long time: loading="lazy" for <video> and <audio> elements. Scott Jehl, an engineer at Squarespace focusing on performance and accessibility, has been the driving force behind this. Scott and a small team of engineers proposed the spec change, wrote the implementation, and got it through the WHATWG HTML spec process with positive signals from all three major browser engines. If you want to understand the full story behind it, Scott talked about it in detail on ShopTalk... #chrome #browsers #web standards
