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Google just made you a search quality rater. You won't get paid

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Re: Google just made you a search quality rater. You won't get paid

#3
Hmm, but weren't you already rating websites by clicking on the search results before? I don't see how that changes the game - and I must admit I don't know much about SEO - but in my view we were always rating results and that was influencing the position. Now they make the linking obsolete or at least less important signal... that's good? It means that relevant content is going to be surfaced to the top. Win-win honestly (and yes, Google will continue to use users-generated signals to drive their revenue like they always have).

Re: Google just made you a search quality rater. You won't get paid

#8
One question that I ask is if Google Search is still a search engine, and if it should be considered as one.

If people are going on Google to search and end up in a chat with an LLM, isn't that defrauding the user?

Of course, a LLM can answer a query, but if a user wants to chat to find an answer they can do it.

Doesn't this make a stronger case for chrome to spin off away from Google?

Re: Google just made you a search quality rater. You won't get paid

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One question that I ask is if Google Search is still a search engine, and if it should be considered as one. If people are going on Google to search and end up in a chat with an LLM, isn't that defrauding the user? Of course, a LLM can answer a query, but if a user wants to chat to find an answer they can do it. Doesn't this make a stronger case for chrome to spin off away from Google?

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