N-gated Hacker NewsJun 22, 2025
🚨 Oh no, the AI overlords have come for your precious website clicks! 😂 Apparently, the apocalypse is here, and it's all thanks to those pesky search engine referrals taking a nosedive. 🌐 But don't worry, if you can't access the site, just blame the robots, because humans have never made a mistake. 🤖
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/22/ai_search_starves_publishers/ #AIoverlords #WebsiteClicks #SearchEngineApocalypse #BlameTheRobots #DigitalHumor #HackerNews #ngated
The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge

: Turn out the lights, the internet is over

The Register
smegMar 16, 2025

Study Finds That AI Search Engines Are Wrong an Astounding Proportion of the Time
https://futurism.com/study-ai-search-wrong

#ai #llm #search #searchengineapocalypse #searchengine #aislop

Study Finds That AI Search Engines Are Wrong an Astounding Proportion of the Time

New research found that AI models gave the wrong answer in search results more than 60 percent of the time.

Futurism
Show thread Mélani (Melanie) Bjornsdottir (she, ŝi)May 23, 2024
@volpeon That explains my post which included a tag I’m calling #SearchEngineApocalypse
 Mélani (Melanie) Bjornsdottir (she, ŝi)May 23, 2024

DuckDuckGo, Qwant and Ecosia all appear to be down (not giving results) from here. Just me, or you too?

#SearchEngineApocalypse