Thank you Google for giving us subpar suggestions while making a fortune
Google Search lets creators know more about their reach
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#42The company I worked from added a feature where we added context-based translation as we found that 90% of automated translations keep doing same mistakes.
We marked all pages canonical and not canonical and we did everything to ensure we were not trying to pass as we were faking content.
It was then that we were wiped out from search results. We got our consultant to get official support from Google and then they simply said: "oopsie we had bug here. Sorry not sorry"
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#43My Google usage has gone down fairly significantly in the past couple of years as I use whatever free models to do nearly all of what I used Google search for. The only thing that Google has me with right now is YouTube and Gmail.
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#44My Google usage has gone down fairly significantly in the past couple of years as I use whatever free models to do nearly all of what I used Google search for. The only thing that Google has me with right now is YouTube and Gmail.
For now, until they’ve Googled the product into garbage, AI is so much better at getting me exactly what I’m seeking. I wonder if when considering all the ad slop that comes with every Google search or website load, it might actually be more energy friendly, or at least comparable?
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think that means anything. It's just some random words to add pretense to an arbitrary change. I mean, just stop to think about it. You have a Youtube account, you post videos. Analytics shows traffic from Google but can't show you the keywords. At one point, Google merged Youtube with Google+. Just did it outright without asking anybody. Youtubers link their Youtube accounts with Google AdSense. You can link…
The term you're looking for might be "maintenance mode". This sounds like what we do with software we don't care to develop further, even if it's the big cash cow
That doesn't sound bad enough. It feels closer to "abandonment mode."
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#46Am I the only one who thinks that Google Analytics and its brethren are TERRIBLE in actually providing useful data for making decisions for marketing and sales purposes?
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#47Am I the only one who thinks that Google Analytics and its brethren are TERRIBLE in actually providing useful data for making decisions for marketing and sales purposes?
You’re not alone. I haven’t looked at this for my own content (I really only publish on the web) but I’m encouraged that it’s search and not analytics. I don’t use Google Analytics on my site for privacy reasons. I’m kinda hoping this works without it, using their data, not mine.
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#48The most interesting part of the official announcement [0]: "As people gravitate toward firsthand perspectives..." That implies Google is seeing a shift away from people relying on just AI-generated summaries, and checking the cited sources more. I have certainly found that when I ask a chat tool something, and then go to the human-written source webpage, it's not uncommon I get a different insight than what the AI i…
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#49The most interesting part of the official announcement [0]: "As people gravitate toward firsthand perspectives..." That implies Google is seeing a shift away from people relying on just AI-generated summaries, and checking the cited sources more. I have certainly found that when I ask a chat tool something, and then go to the human-written source webpage, it's not uncommon I get a different insight than what the AI i…
Hopefully that is the case, because what Google and others are trying via AI, is to privatize the web. They already tried it via AMP. People are probably annoyed that AI/LLMs are lying to them, so not everyone sees the main threat being Google trying to containerize and "walled garden" approach access to information. > I have certainly found that when I ask a chat tool something, and then go to the human-written sour…
Which lab is going to stop AI from hallucinating first?
What’s taking them so long? If OpenAI was going to do it, why didn’t Anthropic do it first, or vice versa? Or if we assume collusion: shouldn’t DeepSeek have released a hallucination-free LLM to steal the US’s thunder?
(Good points on AMP and walled garden)
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#50The most interesting part of the official announcement [0]: "As people gravitate toward firsthand perspectives..." That implies Google is seeing a shift away from people relying on just AI-generated summaries, and checking the cited sources more. I have certainly found that when I ask a chat tool something, and then go to the human-written source webpage, it's not uncommon I get a different insight than what the AI i…
Hope they move away from the engagement model.
I prefer blogs over reddit/insta/tiktok in search results.