Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
"provide a more visual, snackable, personal, and human layout and interface designed to appeal more to younger searchers."
Google Search to become more "visual, snackable, personal, and human"
So what happens once Google decides just to serve our content up without any links to our own sites...we all block Googlebot and move on?
The writing is on the wall.
In the short term, I believe AI will provide an excuse for Google to push forward with drastic layout changes that consume more of our content to keep users on Google as you eluded to. I don't see how this will end well for any of us.
Has anyone else noticed how USA traffic just seems to stop cold for hours at a time now?My USA traffic just sits idle for a good portion of the day, then suddenly comes back in the later part of the day. Non-USA traffic is steady all day.
There are few, if any, ads on the page and not that many widgets when I have checked, so I have no idea how Google has accomplished this feat of making traffic almost entirely disappear.
So if Google are dropping the "ten blue links" (plus their deluge of ads) are they now finally admitting that they are no longer a "search engine" but an information provider? How dangerous is that?
If yes no need to worry ...otherwise reshape your whole website/websites to mobile friendly..
and Bob's your uncle...
.no matter what the future will bring if you have an established brand with great value content and links I believe you will have no worries...
We should be rocking, but instead have sunk like a rock in Google. Now I do the same search from a different IP address located a few hundred miles away and the whole screen is just ads. Only when I scroll can I see we are still #1. Google is showing me everything I want to see from my IP and likely everyone else something entirely different and filled with ads like I saw myself using a different IP. We serve the USA and Canada markets directly, so this hit us hard.
Huge drop this morning
Looking at Google's presentation yesterday it would seem as though anyone with a site relying on images, such as travel or cookery, has a lot to worry about! It looks as though copyright issues may get interesting as well now that Bard generates it's own graphics, no doubt based on the work of other people (like, real humans!) who may object to their images being altered in this way. I foresee lawsuits and a huge increase in 'lobbying' budgets.
Yes, but in reality, it's the stock image sites that have the most to fear...literally nobody will pay them to purchase images to use commercially if they can just render them in seconds for free using AI
the browser is detecting my own location every time with both Chrome and Safari. What do you use?
huge CTR changes, I don’t see that huge CTR changes usually, I would say Google is changing layout for ads again
"The websites of various...."listing 4 types of websites where it was learned, but no domains or links to them. I then asked if it was copyright infringement, and was told:
"It is possible that it could be considered copyright infringement if I were to use someone's knowledge without compensating them. However, I am not sure if this would be the case in my particular situation. I am still under development, and I am not sure how copyright law applies to me."
I remember when Google first started and I was amazed then at how they drove a coach and horses through copyright laws and got away with it. No doubt with their massive 'lobbying' budgets they will do so again.
Incidentally I will shed no tears for Getty Images. I'll refrain from saying why :-)
How terrible it is that there is nothing stopping Google from consuming the entire digital world, our businesses and livelihoods.
there is. It's called 'Europe'.
I'll be slightly controversial and say "multipolar world".
I do suspect, though, that the USA, with so many legislators in awe to the mighty dollar, will be the last to act.
I doubt very much if the USA will reign Google in. There are far too many government lawyers looking forward to joining all their friends at Google with highly paid jobs for that. Would you upset Google too much if you were in their place? That is the problem with a government on both sides of the political fence ruled by Wall Street. Over here it's different.
Bard doesn't even site sources or provide links to the content
So Google is no longer an advertising company masquerading as a search engine, but a content re-hasher, riding on the backs of millions of real content providers. Let's see how the legislators, lawyers, general public, foreign governments, conspiracy theorists, AI sceptics, and website publishers react to that. Time for a huge increase in the 'lobbying' budget.
How many of you in the USA actually write to your representatives and senators to express your complaints and concerns?
Such effort results in no action except canned responses. The average age of politicians in congress is 58 and senate 64 years old. I doubt they understand technology much and have aides do everything for them. I bet many don't even cook their own meals or drive themselves anywhere. These people, many with political careers spanning decades, have been detached from their constituents for a very long time.
From what I see, USA has the most ad aggressive serp layout of any nation. It will be tough for us in the USA to survive this as there appears to be little resistance for Google to encounter as they serve more ads that deal blow after blow to organic.
I think this will be the last year for my site :(
What you are saying is correct in terms of demographics, except that it comes to a false conclusion...that conclusion really is just an excuse for apathy and inaction.
organic search is dying in front of our eyes, and it was killed by the company that birthed it, not a competitor.
