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Google is replacing search results with only the AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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replace the Web with slop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aji8lhaV3XM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260520-google-replacing-search-results-with-only-the-ai - podcast

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[–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If sites start blocking googlebot en masse, then googlebot will just start ignoring robots.txt

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Then you can just block the user agent in nginx or whatever you use, like all the other AI scrapers who ignore robots.txt (*cough* Amazon)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Then the user agent string will just quietly become randomised so you can't match it reliably because it turns out that honouring robots.txt was always little more than a "gentleman's handshake".

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    this is a problem we have had for a while now, i assure you

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Yeah an adversary like Google isn't something you can easily block without really annoying legitimate users unfortunately. Nothing is stopping them from turning every chrome instance into a botnet node except for the angry article that would run in Ars Technica.

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