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Tonight I end a 21-year blogging career
- ggm 2y agoFairly direct, accusative reasoning. Is this some AI backed monetisation google have sprung on her tier of ad supported businesses?
- skilled 2y agoGoogle is pushing out small publishers in a pretty big way: - penalising entire sites for “unhelpful” content as decided by an ML algorithm - gave Reddit and other similar sites a 1,000% visibility increase - AI answers now a default for US users (but not yet for all queries) - combine all of the above + Google’s own 3-5 ad spots… A major shuffle will happen in the next 1-2 years and I personally think what Google is doing with search is a mistake. This has little to do with Google improving search but more to do with pushing AI and then taking up all the real estate above the 10 blue links. It makes sense, except that there can only be so much overflow in a well…
- h2odragon 2y agoUnquestioned assumption that advertiser supported writing is the only possible reason or model for writing. People who have blogged for profit for 21 years probably do not have the following that those speaking their passion have had. Google chased those people off the net long ago, for the most part. Excepting the few who share the passions with Official Google Policy.