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The man who killed Google Search?

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1884 points elorant | 4 comments | 23 Apr 24 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | source
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skilled ◴[23 Apr 24 17:27 UTC] No.40134575[source]▶
Google is doing something similar now[0], both from a searchers and a site owners perspective.

Barry Schwartz regularly posts Google updates on his site[1], for over a decade no less. Since August 2023, those updates have been reaching the 500 mean comment range with many updates reaching 700-900 comment range. And this has been happening for 8 straight months!

People have been robbed of their livelihoods and many have caught strays, with the culprit being that Reddit, Quora, and LinkedIn have tripled/doubled their traffic.

I just don’t understand why Google can’t create a Discussions panel and let people decide what they want to view as opposed to flat out cutting creators off at the knees.

No content creator thinks to themselves, “let me go write my next article on Reddit”.

Now they are throwing AI in the mix also which is probably the dumbest thing they could have done, but I get why they are doing it.

I hope it clicks for Google soon that they are “fucked” and will never recover users they lost to OpenAI, etc.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067605

[1]: https://www.seroundtable.com/category/google-updates

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1. arromatic ◴[23 Apr 24 17:37 UTC] No.40134711[source]▶
I feel like google is prioritizing reddit way more than regular forums . Quora is the second most annoying thing , Search for y , Click on top result which is Quora > Either it's a personal opinion or a brand account answering or the real answer is locked behind subscription . Not to mention the dominance of large brands like this https://detailed.com/google-control/ and non existent personal sites . But i am still pessimistic about new search engines like bing has backing of a behemoth microsoft yet can't copy simple features from google.
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2. skilled ◴[23 Apr 24 17:53 UTC] No.40134903[source]▶
Quora and LinkedIn are also heavily overrun with AI garbage. Quora does it flat out, and LinkedIn launched Pulse to farm millions of AI generated topics and then invite its users to contribute.

LinkedIn is now one of the top results for topics like metaphysics, quantum physics, etc.

It’s a clown show.

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3. TechDebtDevin ◴[23 Apr 24 18:39 UTC] No.40135560[source]▶
I've also noticed that I'm getting top results from companies who definitely have big AdSense spend, theres likely a bias or ads aren't labeled at all. However, with some companies I sometimes find that the page being listed often doesn't even exist anymore or is simply just a title of an article who's keywords match popular searches but there is actually no content or blog post, just a title..This SEO strategy somehow can get you top ranked on Google these days. Yeah RIP Google.
4. TheCleric ◴[23 Apr 24 19:50 UTC] No.40136428[source]▶
I feel like at least on Reddit results you'll get something that may be helpful. The Quora results have NEVER resulted in something useful for me.