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2 receipts tracked • 75% industry hit rate
Search advertising, AI search, SEO disruption.
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RECEIPT #KINT-G
MAY 21, 2020
PREDICTION BY
Jason Kint“The Google antitrust ship has set its course. After five years of growing scrutiny, regulatory action against Google's adtech dominance is now inevitable.”
FOLLOW-UP
DOJ sued Google over search (Oct 2020) and adtech (Jan 2023); both have produced rulings against Google (search monopoly Aug 2024; adtech monopoly Apr 2025).
ORIGINAL SOURCE
Digital Content NextRECEIPT #BERKOW
NOV 19, 2012
PREDICTION BY
David Berkowitz“I predict that search will be dead in 2020.”
FOLLOW-UP
Search wasn't dead in 2020 — Google search revenue actually grew. But Berkowitz's broader thesis (predictive recommendations replacing "head" and "tail" queries, behavioral data displacing typed queries) is exactly what AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity are now doing. He publicly graded himself in 2024: "I was wrong. And I was right. And I was right for the wrong reasons."
ORIGINAL SOURCE
Ad Age — "Google's Fight to Kill Search by 2020"