Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results

https://awful.systems/post/2178630

Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results - awful.systems

On the one hand, Google’s still the dominant search engine, having used every dirty trick in the book to reach that position and maintain it. If you aren’t on Google, you arguably might as well not exist.

On the other hand, Google’s already under heavy scrutiny since being officially declared an illegal monopoly, and the public is pissed with how Google’s declined in search quality - and deliberately so.

Part of me says we’re about to see some truly wild shit go down.

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The Register

also they’re about to start squeezing even harder on the chrome-side control (along with some continuing sketch in android)

I’m an extremely cynical bastard but I also feel like there might be light in the tunnel. just hoping it’s not a train I can’t hear yet.