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Website owners are accusing Google of effectively destroying the internet by cutting off their traffic, thanks to recent algorithm changes. Even mainstream media outlets like CNET are covering this story, pointing out that some indepedently owned websites have lost 90% of their organic traffic virtually overnight. What is going on here? Is Google AI to blame?
Google's algorithm changes are negatively impacting smaller websites and independent creators by prioritizing monetization and larger outlets, leading to significant traffic losses and financial instability.
00:00 Google’s algorithm changes are allegedly hurting smaller websites and prioritizing monetization over quality, disadvantaging independent creators.
02:46 Google's algorithm updates are devastating small websites, causing massive traffic losses and financial instability.
05:44 Google’s update to favor human content is backfiring, hurting independent site owners while boosting larger outlets and causing chaos in the SEO landscape.
08:43 Google is prioritizing profit over publishers, harming the news ecosystem and website traffic due to its search dominance and AI-driven content promotion.
11:05 Google is cracking down on spammy SEO practices, prompting Forbes to end freelance partnerships over irrelevant content issues.
13:13 Google’s search ranking updates are damaging legitimate websites in a bid to boost its ad revenue and control user experience, raising concerns over AI-generated content.
15:36 Google’s dominance is hurting independent sites and content creators, causing traffic drops and a decline in pop culture journalism as audiences shift to podcasts and YouTube.
18:15 Embrace a backup plan for your online presence, as inevitable changes may render you obsolete.
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A lot of results are gone, even when we search for a very specific result, the internet golden age is gone, now is the age of corporate sponsored internet.
I keep disabling the Ai search and it keeps enabling itself.
@@chilomine839 Stop using Google, there’s other search engines.
thats why you use uncensored search engines instead of corpo trash
Then let’s just make a new Internet, that’s what people are trying to do.
Anything without ai and algorithms is the way to go. I only use euckduckgo and Mozilla firefox for browsers.
Wasn’t Google’s old motto “Don’t be evil”? Nowadays Google goes out of its way to be evil.
Yep, it was in their IPO filing. They stopped using it years ago.
they removed this a long time ago
That was posturing from the beginning
When they removed that phrase from their mission statement, it marked the start of construction of the Death Star.
I miss the internet that allowed a Japanese Man, who yoddled in German, about Chickens, to go viral.
chicken attack
Lightsaber kid.
You have no idea. I’ve been online since the early 90s. The internet has gone from a wild west where you could do, say or find anything, to a sanitised, censored advertising machine. There is not much of a real internet anymore. It’s it’s just a virtual mall.
@@Whatthe-o7gIt’s definitely feeling like that.
@@Whatthe-o7g yeah running into goatsee, tubgirl and the like.. While horrible was hilarious. You had stuff like Joe’s Cartoons , and the earlier versions of neopets that were kinda screwed up. Try to search for something now, Google is like “Did you mean – ” something completely different, and slowly an increasing number of searches are getting to the point of near unusability.
Unsurprising, these are the people who took “don’t be evil” out of their motto.
Anyone who used Google search a decade ago can plainly see that there is something very wrong with search results. 1 billion search results but I can only see ten pages of results? I call bs.
i tried it with different search engines and with search term I know what things should be found. Google sucks. Even bing did better job. That was the moment I got different search engines.
@@Soshikix I can confirm it.
When Google started to curate and choose what you see, they realised they could just manipulate search results.
nearly nobody sees more than the first page anyway so why bother
Exactly
I remember a time when Google used to be useful.
When you googled something it actually linked you to the information…
I remember complaining about Google results over a decade ago and people didn’t listen.
Not only do you not get any answers, now you have to answer the same question to others. How logical…
Now google gives you ads.
I posted this quote as my own separate comment under this video, but it applies here as well:
_”Maybe the_ [Psi Corps.] _served a function a long time ago. Now it’s something else.”_
— BABYLON 5
Even some government websites don’t show up on the search, insane!
The funny thing is the more ads they throw at me the angrier I get. I am at a point now where I will not watch a single add.
i haven’t watched an ad in forever since I have two ad blockers running at the same time. as much as they claim they got rid of that option or made it so that it can “bypass” the ad blockers, it didn’t do anything to the two I have that still work.
I’ve used an adblocker for so long, that I don’t even really know what non adblocked Google looks like. When I use a phone from time to time without an adblocker, I get caught off guard, and wonder how do people put up with this? You have to scroll past like 4 results, to find the real result. lmao
the internet is unusable without adblockers. I’m so yearning for the next dotcom crash so the corpos go away and start monetizing something else
@@mrbisshieonly ads are on said phone when on YouTube. I switched to brave after duckduckgo went woke or started to sell data. Idr
Forgot ads were a thing. Even on mobile/ tablet. Since I run Firefox and that allows adblockers plug-in among other things
Google’s search engine is completely damaged. It no longer provides meaningful results most of the time, just an AI output and the same few sites. Even trying to view more resultes just yeilds little to no benefit.
The AI isn’t even accurate a majority of the time, which isn’t at all surprising.
The results end up being Quora and Reddit posts propped up as reliable sources
I put more Trust in Brave Search
The censorship of Google is also out of whack and one of the reason I avoid it. It doesn’t search anymore, only promoting garbage as ads/sponsored results.
*All* of Google’s products are damaged.
Google (Then): “Dont be evil..”
Google (Now): “Times change”
Google (Future): “Be evil.”
@JerbilKonai na, future will be Google AI: F humanity.
“Find the crosswalks in this image”
Not being evil should be the default. If you have to remind yourself through your company motto then evil is your default.
Google: ” Evil is really relative.”
Google has become so unreliable it’s making my job in IT extremely difficult. I used to be able to find answers and documentation on the first page. Now it’s like a soup of uneducated, incorrect answers or unanswered forum threads.
I completely agree I need to use brave to get a reasonable answer and that doesn’t work all the time.
Switch chat GPT
I norice the same. I can’t find simple facts on Google. I get garbeldygook but them the AI just “tells me” the answer with no source.
I think they want to force people to use the AI model instead of searching for pages.
Use Brave Search
@@goblincomic4522 chatgpt hurts websites too
Google went evil in 2008 and the only surprise to me is that it took 25 years for this to be discussed. An entire generation was served gate kept web pages.
It was probably always evil. It just had to hide it less and less.
Are you from the future? Tell, me does Trump win in 2028?
They dropped the “Don’t” in their motto.
Yeah google is pretty much useless now. I’ve gone back to like Bing and yahoo just to get something other than reddit and quora results.
I use opera with ad blocker
@@Xaforn that’s a browser, OP is referring to Search Engines
DuckDuckGo is better.
the sad thing is, if you want results from real people, you actually have to add “reddit” to the search term. Stuff like “what is the best gun in this and this game” or “best movies about” or even “how do I do X” just gives you results from big corpos that all just copy off of each other that may not even be relevant to what you actually wanna know, only with added “reddit” you may (or may not) get real people and real answers
Same here. I mostly use Bing. It’s way better
I do miss the late 2000s when I would search for a phrase and get a bunch of personal blogs and ugly forum pages in which it appears. There was a sense of discovery. Searching for people would have a lot more information that’s now locked behind sign up pages or not available at all. Flash games were big, mmos were big. We need to get back to that
They won’t bring back Flash games unfortunately because apparently the java script is a security threat yet when every other day companies are now like… Don’t answer your email address or texts because those are compromised.
@ Yeah, I was aware that Flash is defunct although Flash itself isn’t necessary for browser games nowadays anyway. Newgrounds type websites were just one component of the internet culture that we all miss
@@richardklein1167 Like last year and early this year when we kept having all these cyber attacks…it’s so secure now. 🤦🏾♀️
Google failed an important lesson – if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
I too is noticing that it’s search engine isn’t as it once was- all because of corporate greed- trying to keep within the Google realm is long term going to hurt it.
They switched to the government’s way of doing things “If it ain’t broke, fix it until it is!”
Thats because they became an advertising company. Its in their best interest to manipulate their websites for maximum data harvest and profit.
It used to be a hub that connected you to distant parts of the internet that you couldn’t reach by means of link rings (websites used to join groups that would link to each other.)
Now, they’re a spider that says, “Well, you’re here now. Might as well stay. Here is good. Don’t leave…” all the while spinning its web around you.
They want control. If you can manipulate the system so hard that you achieve a monopoly, then it doesn’t matter how garbage your product is, because people won’t have a choice.
I don’t like Google. But we have to admit that the internet is getting filled with AI slop too. The current architecture is unsustainable and we need something new. Web-2 is coming to an end.
50% of all sites that were on the internet 5 years ago have gone away and closed.
Is that Google’s fault or the fault of content and site creators who failed to make compelling sites? If your site is utter garbage with nothing positive going on, why should it exist?
@@PWingert1966 You can always use the web time machine. So long as you know the name and year you can find it. I looked up marks daily apple (which turned into paleo kitchen in like 2020 and is a corporate mess full of sponsors now), and it was soooo amazing. So much nostalgia and information. I even saved like 20 pages I used to read or found new.
Its not an accusation. Its a fact. Google has been controlling what people read and buy for years. I started noticing drastic changes about 7 or 8 years ago, getting progressively worse.
It is, they promote certain political ideas and censor ones they don’t like. The censorship of comments we all know happens is a good example of that as well.
Despite that we use it anyways.
@@darkzeroprojects4245 Not me.
@@darkzeroprojects4245 Even if we use alt search engines, they almost always fall back on Google so it all gets mingled. And even if you have the option to not fall back on Google, all of the alt search engines aren’t reliable either, be it quantity or relevancy. And they all have their own form of censoring.
Huh so around 2015- 2016
Monopolies are what happens when you need constant infinite growth to appease shareholders.
Especially when your initial investors are short acronyms
Share companies destroy economies, create non productivity and massive inflation.
And when people mindlessly consume regardless.
And yet govts create so many of them.
Does that mean shareholders are problems?
Google’s search results algorithm may kill sites hanging by a thread, but they’ll ultimately kill Google itself if this keeps up.
Remember when we could have interesting conversations without youtube deleting most of our comments on a whim?
That may return for a time as soon as the lawsuits/ justice start hitting them.
They’ve violated a lot of civil rights. They just thought they’d never be charged
What’s crazy is I’ll reply to a comment. Then I’ll get a notification that someone else replied to that comment (I guess Google still gives you a not notification, even if the person did didn’t reply to you since it’s a reply to the same comment you replied to)
I’ll go to the comment and see that my reply isn’t even there. Like it just vanished. And I don’t normally post anything that would be considered spicy so I always wonder wtf my comment got auto nuked.
Though I also refuse to change the spelling of normal words that other people are afraid to type. Like all the people saying “beer flu” because they were too scared ti say “covid”
@@codycast In my experience some bots/federals/ etc. are protected by the app, so your comment won’t show because you replied to the “wrong” person.
Look for what I mean when somebody says something political, has “tons of upvotes” and zero replies in response.
@@codycast I am enjoying the creativity of many creators in skirting the word filters. I wonder if it will get to the same level Huffington Post comments had before she sold it to AOL