Is Google about to destroy the web?

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• Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Google disagrees. In fact, the company tells the BBC that AI Overviews have been good for the web, and AI Mode will be no different. Google insists these features send users to “a greater diversity of websites” and the traffic is “higher quality” because people spend more time on the links they click.

  However, the company hasn’t provided data to back up these claims.

  This is how we know they are lying.

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  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Google disagrees. In fact, the company tells the BBC “Trust us, bro.”

    Non-AI summary.

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• TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• winni@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  the web is already destroyed with all the spam, commercial crap, tracking and spying

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  • Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But the people making money off of all of that are mad now, hence this article.

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    • Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah. smallest violin plays in the distance

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  • CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What is dead may never die.

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• hydrashok@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “About to”?

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• Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I haven’t used Google Search in quite a while. It’s frankly unusable for finding any useful information for someone like me.

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• seven_phone@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not sure about the web but Google can for sure Yahoo themselves out of existence.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I miss Yahoo games.

    Google only has one game, and it’s not even multiplayer. :/

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    • seven_phone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yahoo games and clubs, groups and search, chat and messenger that had filesharing and video and allowed cross fertilisation between everything. It was becoming the internet, it was set to buy Google and then it just stopped and closed it all down.

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  • imouto@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Japanese people: oh not again

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• queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  about to

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• Nay@feddit.nl ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I called this one pretty early on. Let’s see if it catches on or tanks the Goog.

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• Korkki@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Google search engine has been shit for a decade or more. Wasn’t there some document that it was made so by purpose, because there was no incentive to improve it becuse there was no real competition or the competition was just a front-end to google.

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  • Womble@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

    I’m not a huge fan of Ed Zitron generally, he leans towards histrionic too much for my tastes, but he makes a compelling case here.

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    2018-2019 is when they officially turned the corner and decided to focus only on ad revenue. But the SEO abuse dove it into the ground by 2014ish. They were making money enough to expand by orders of magnitude into other areas, so they simply didn’t want to tweak their search or strategy and kill their golden goose that funded things like Good Drive and their shit social network and loon, etc.

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• RaptorBenn@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Blaming google is like blaming the gun for killing someone, google gonna do what google gonna do, it’s up to the consumer to effect change through attention.

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  • Pirate@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    No, it’s Google changing their algorithm TP feed you AI slop.

    The first page and a half of Google results now is just AI-generated comparison websites. That’s by design.

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    • RaptorBenn@lemmy.world ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Use another search provider then, it’s what’s called consumer discretion and historically has the best chance of effecting an outcome.

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  • fodor@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well no, it’s not, because they have multiple monopolies. So we should blame them and blame government for not stopping them.

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    • Joshi@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Exactly, it’s counter-productive to blame individuals for doing the best they know how in a broken system.

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    • RaptorBenn@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Where do monopolies get their money?

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  • stellargmite@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To a degree perhaps. It has also monopolised industries that feed into each other. Even if you choose not to use their consumer products, you are being used by them as the product in these industries if you use the web at all, which is most of their business model. That isn’t consumer choice. Political intervention is one hope, which in some countries I guess there is some consumer power over, if consumers were to collectivise to a degree more valuable than the lobbying power of this monster. The internet was turned into the yellowpages with sharp teeth by google .

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    • RaptorBenn@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh yes, political intervention, that’ll work, no chance of that turning out worse than what we have now.

      How about taking responsibility and just not using services that require it. And I dont care if that’s a disadvantage to some, that’s the cost.

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• j4yt33@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cool, I’ll just ditch Google at work as well, then

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