As someone who remembers what the web was like 25 years ago, I have a feeling that they're burying a corpse.
Yes, a corpse killed by Facebook, Reddit, Discord and other closed platforms.
Google is burying the web alive
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#12So how long do we have until companies can pay to be in the system prompt to be recommended for certain queries?
My speculation: It's almost certainly already happening.
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#14Goodbye small blogs and medium publishers, it was nice to read you. Now Google take your unique content, rewrite and present on their website. There will be no incentive anymore to write a new content. You will get NOTHING for your hard work. Bye.
You can't simultaneously rail against ads, which is our best model for scaled monetization, or complain against paywall and then say it is killing the business model.
Stuff costs money but unfortunately we as a society have come to expect free stuff, and businesses are just catering to it.
If not for Google, ChatGPT or someone else will do it.
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#15Correction: burying our business model alive
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#16As someone who remembers what the web was like 25 years ago, I have a feeling that they're burying a corpse.
The corpse was already buried ages ago and his name was Jeeves: What they are doing now is an exhumation and calling it the future.
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#17The web has been a walking corpse for about a decade now.
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#19My summary - G is 'burying' web search results underneath AI results on its search page.
Pretty much. This is getting toward a "derangement syndrome" kind of behavior, IMHO.
When Microsoft and subsidiaries deploy AI-enhanced search results, it's a "Google Killer" and rockets to the top of the front page of HN to great fanfare.
When it turns out that the best and most-used AI-enhanced search results are served at the Google search prompt, Google is "burying the web alive" and the outrage rockets to the front page of HN.
Which is it, folks? Like, was OpenAI killing the web too? Or is it good when OpenAI kills the web but bad when Google does?
(And yes, Google pays my salary, but to work on firmware and not think about search or AI)
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#20I only do physical offline marketing for some time now. Works well enough and one stands out among all the clickbait and other foolery. Some index disappearing is not a problem. The moment organizations or institutions start burning the libraries down, then we have a bigger problem.
Don't get fooled by people who claim the open web is dead. The moment you start believing that, then you are exactly where they want you to be.