Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic
sprite0@sh.itjust.works 1 week agothey purposefully fucked yup they search so people would have to click more pages to find their answer, giving google a chance to display more ads.
Pirate@feddit.org 5 days ago
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
sprite0@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
this isn’t a theory of mine, it came out in leaked testimony. totally intentional enshittification for profit