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Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same

Over the last two years, a series of updates to Google Search amount to a dramatic upheaval to the Internet's most powerful tool, complete with an unprecedented AI feature.

Last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai stood in front of a crowd at the company's annual developer conference and announced one of the most significant moves in the search engine's history. "Our recent updates aim to connect people with content that is helpful, satisfying and original, from a diverse range of sites across the web," a Google spokesperson tells the BBC. Over the past few years, swaths of savvy internet users started adding the word "Reddit" to the end of their web searches in the hopes it would bring up people sharing their honest opinions, as opposed to websites trying to game Google's system.

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