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News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic (nypost.com)
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    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

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