mesa to [email protected]English • 1 month agoNews outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website trafficnypost.comexternal-linkmessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1237cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1237external-linkNews outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website trafficnypost.commesa to [email protected]English • 1 month agomessage-square84fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-21 month agothey purposefully fucked up the search so people would have to click more pages to find their answer, giving google a chance to display more ads.
minus-squareCyberwolflinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoI have a different theory. Google started scrapping Reddit since its gone public, so I think this is a strategy to get people to use [search query] + reddit in order to find answers, so that Google can scrape that data to train their AI
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agothis isn’t a theory of mine, it came out in leaked testimony. totally intentional enshittification for profit
they purposefully fucked up the search so people would have to click more pages to find their answer, giving google a chance to display more ads.
I have a different theory. Google started scrapping Reddit since its gone public, so I think this is a strategy to get people to use [search query] + reddit in order to find answers, so that Google can scrape that data to train their AI
this isn’t a theory of mine, it came out in leaked testimony. totally intentional enshittification for profit