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It used to be that Google would find search results on the web and send you there. They were good at it. Good for content creators, good for users. Then they s
by sfjailbird 4y ago
It used to be that Google would find search results on the web and send you there. They were good at it. Good for content creators, good for users.
Then they started scraping the destination pages and present the answer right there on Google's own results page. No traffic for you. Well at least there was a link.
Now they take it one step further, and just steal the content and feed it into their gargantuan pattern matcher, to be spit out to users in a remixed form, swirled up with a bunch of similarly scraped content from the open web. Great for Google, RIP content creators.
- rchaud 4y ago"content creator" is a separate category of for-profit online media. As it's designed for mass consumption, the content creators moved off the open web a long time ago to sharecrop on BigCorp's platforms: YouTube, Twitch, Substack, TikTok, etc. There are lots of non-commercial random blogs out there with useful information on long-tail topics. I agree that those will disappear from search, as AI will put a lower weight on their posts compared to something from a major website.