Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL
Besides the fact that this article is a clickbait, "killing URLs" is a actually something that is happening. I'm surprised nobody put this in relation with the fact that google has a search engine, something much more important to this topic than the fact that it has a web browser. Hiding URLs and making them 2nd class citizen means nothing alone. The reason it is done is to promote an alternative way of accessing/finding things, with the goal of controlling how people move/navigate (since this is directly translatable to ad-money and behavioral data collection). Just think about every single ad-based (eg lock-in based) social network/service/web-app: they want you to navigate through <i>their</i> searchbox and result page, because they want to control what you see and keep you from going away.<p>So killing URLs isn't much about this particular action from google or about web-browsers, it's actually embodied by the much broader trend towards searchbox-centered ui and "related stuff"-based navigation (instead of an absolute classification system like trees, tag hierarchies etc). Please f*ck off with your search engines and recommendation systems, just give me some tools to build taxonomies so i can organize myself. I know what i want and i know how i want it classified. IT was meant to organize (and process) databases please just stick to that, i want a library not a bookshop.