JA WestenbergFeb 22
The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore. It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that isn't remotely relevant...
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@Daojoan it's because Google broke the monetization mechanism. You used to be able to post text tutorials on your website, and it was paid for by display adds (and search traffic). Google broke this by scraping your site and displaying it in the 'summaries' box. Video on YouTube is still (somewhat) monetizable, so tutorials go there.
Feb 25 at 2:20amWeb
Show threadCaptchaFeb 25
@Daojoan For now AI is a reasonable substitute since it has been trained on the afore mentioned scraped content but you wonder what happens when no-one makes tutorials anymore to feed into the AI hopper, and no-one can figure out how to use AI generated apps...
Show threadHarrisonFormry1d ago
@Captcha @Daojoan Yeah, a lot of publishers felt that after Google started answering queries directly in SERPs. That’s why many are diversifying monetization instead of relying only on search + AdSense. Native ads (like MGID) can help recover some revenue since they don’t depend as much on search traffic.