mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 天前News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website trafficnypost.comexternal-linkmessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1398arrow-down18
arrow-up1390arrow-down1external-linkNews outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website trafficnypost.commesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 天前message-square84fedilink
minus-squaresprite0@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-24 天前they purposefully fucked up the search so people would have to click more pages to find their answer, giving google a chance to display more ads.
minus-squareCyberwolf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 小时前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
minus-squaresprite0@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 小时前this isn’t a theory of mine, it came out in leaked testimony. totally intentional enshittification for profit
they purposefully fucked up the search so people would have to click more pages to find their answer, giving google a chance to display more ads.
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
this isn’t a theory of mine, it came out in leaked testimony. totally intentional enshittification for profit