Google is using AI to censor independent websites like mine
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Google is using AI to censor independent websites like mine
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#3The article treats as axiom that organic traffic is a right. It's not.
Most people don't want to read an article on travel advice when AI gives us much better and specific advice, with references, when we want it.
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#5> Google plans to use AI to consume and replace the open web.
They've been boiling the frog here for a long time. The "open web" is a euphemism for the Google Chrome monoculture walled-garden-in-waiting. Google exert so much influence there that building on the web is in practice barely different than building on say iOS. You can do what you want if you don't want to make money, but if you do then you will have to play along with the big G.
My hunch is Google never psychologically recovered from Facebook absolutely wiping out G+, and they have been on a mission to ensure nothing like that ever happens again.
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#6The article treats as axiom that organic traffic is a right. It's not. Most people don't want to read an article on travel advice when AI gives us much better and specific advice, with references, when we want it.
> Most people don't want to read an article on travel advice when AI gives us much better and specific advice, with references, when we want it.
They may not want that now, they might want it back if they get used to the google AI experience for a bit longer.
The amount of false information I got from this thing in the short time it's been forced upon me is staggering. My brain already started to filter out this part of the search results.
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#7.
I am finding it really hard to not reply with expletives to people that suck it up the way you do to trillion dollar corporations.
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#8The article treats as axiom that organic traffic is a right. It's not. Most people don't want to read an article on travel advice when AI gives us much better and specific advice, with references, when we want it.
I haven't been able to get much practical travel advice from AI yet, any tips?
For stuff like hiking routes, permitting, local cuisine, etc. I don't think it can replace a good blog from an experienced person at this point.
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#9I see it in a positive light. For me it means back to the roots. People will visit your website by typing in your URL directly into the address bar. Direct marketing and mouth-to-mouth will be a thing again.
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#10The article treats as axiom that organic traffic is a right. It's not. Most people don't want to read an article on travel advice when AI gives us much better and specific advice, with references, when we want it.
> The article treats as axiom that organic traffic is a right. It's not.
Agreed, but traffic has been the substitute for monetary rewards so far. If they aren't sending the traffic then someone is going to start to need to pay for surfacing and verifying information directly.