Data gathered by Chartbeat and shared by Axios reveals that, over the past year, Google Search traffic to publishers across the broader web have fallen drastically, and proportionally more so for smaller websites. Referral traffic from Google apparently fell by 60% for “small publishers,” while “medium publishers” (those with between 10,000-100,000 daily pageviews) saw a drop of 47%. “Large publishers,” meanwhile, saw a 22% drop. That last category would be any site getting over 100,000 daily pageviews.
It’s not just Google Search either. While Search traffic dropped by 34%, traffic from Google Discover has also fallen by 15% over the past year, the report found.
Most of the time i use search engines to get to wikipedia. Now i have to add “wiki” to most of my queries because wikipedia wont even show up on the first page.
Cherry@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Search engines are pretty much redundant because they don’t return what we are looking for.
They cooked themselves.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
But what if what your are looking for is AI generated articles that don’t provide any trustworthy answers and top 10 lists of products that their manufacturers paid the site to figure on the list?
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
Well when you put it that way……
SaraTonin@lemmy.world 53 minutes ago
Yup,i use perplexity as my first port of call for most searches. Not because it’s good - it’s not, I’d estimate it’s wrong around 80%of the time - but because it’s still better than the alternatives
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I use DDG and SearXNG several times per day. It’s better at finding information in StackOverflow and Reddit threads than directly searching in those sites and it’s the only way I know how to actively seek out websites I haven’t been referred to by anyone.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
Seriously! The most I use one is for the spelling of words not already programmed into my swipe keyboard. And even then it still manages to fuck it up on occasion!