June 2026 Google Search Observations

[BigKat]

I am supposed to believe that AI is useful for business when biggest AI company (Google) itself can't make AI that can spot spam from real content.

It demonstrates AI is more hype than anything else. If AI were so great, all the states allowing AI data centers to be built would be using the technology themselves and they're not. I'm sure a lot of politicians are getting rich, along with the AI companies, but that's about it at this point.

[edited by: not2easy at 11:46 am (utc) on Jun 3, 2026]
[edit reason] New month, new thread [/edit]

[RedBar]

Is anyone else seeing massive bot attacks the past couple of days especially from TECHOFF SRV LIMITED supposedly now out of Andorra?

They're now a bigger PITA than MSFT!

[Maleda]

On positive side - my AI scraper tarpit is working. Scraping has reduced significantly.

@christianz would you be happy to share how you have implemented the tarpit, I'd like to try and put something similar in place.