nixCraft 🐧DuckDuckGo's AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week following Google's insistence that people love AI mode. Is anyone surprised by this result?
I have seen this before with their forced Google+ adoption game. Users aren't adopting Google AI at the rate shareholders or C suits expect, so they now force the adoption at the cost of search engine. Just like Google+ died out, this forced AI mode in Google search is going to die and I hope it will be the end of the company as well.
Schamschula@nixCraft If all the original content providers put Googlebot* on the robots.txt block list, or better yet, add a Google specific noindex meta tag to all their content, it’ll speed up the demise of the Google “search” engine. I did so last week.