Seorefugee provide a list in which search engines, ie Google, are justifiably berated for some of their excesses

 Search is fracturing: Google now offers web search, image search, video search, news search, local search, “more” search and “even more” search. Do you optimize for one, a few or all types of search? How can you optimize if, as may already be happening, satisfying the demands of one algorithm causes another to punish you.

The death refers to the fact that in the main these are probably bad things for web1.0 SEO and its practioners - but possibly good for end-users of websites.