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Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI (www.theregister.com)
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[-] unglueclass23@programming.dev 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was thinking the same thing recently. It's not the place it once was. But in general the internet has changed a lot. And it's not just AI.

  1. All sorts of paywalls especially in news sites.
  2. Everything is getting centralized into a few sites and they're usually eithe poorly indexable or not at all (Discord, facebook, X, Instagram and so on)
  3. Fediverse (Lemmy, Mastodon) also struggles with search engines.
  4. People trying to sell you shit, create a brand even more than before. Because of this all sorts of SEO optimization crap is done like writing BS articles nobody cares about.
  5. AI slop.
  6. Search engines have gotten better of getting rid of "illegal stuff".
  7. A lot of sites are just presentational bloat with no substance. Very cool looking landing pages with all sorts of cool animations but when you need to actually find the information that you need... the same UI usually gets in the way.

Oh and now we're getting into age verification crap also yay

[-] PlantJam@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

An example of number 4, there's a poster I've seen on reddit that's posting very relevant content, but then every post ends with "@xxxxxxxx on all socials". It just takes the whole thing from content I might want to engage with to the exact opposite.

this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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