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I find this article pretty confusing. It ends with "dear Google, I know you will but please don’t steal my stuff", but the author/blog is literally called "SEM
by danpalmer 2y ago
I find this article pretty confusing. It ends with "dear Google, I know you will but please don’t steal my stuff", but the author/blog is literally called "SEM (Search Engine Marketing) King". Surely the point of SEM is to have search engines scrape, summarise, and link to your content?
Additionally, it covers ChatGPT Search as an alternative, but is criticising Google search as "the search engine that's forgotten how to search". Like, do you want traditional search or do you want AI search, pick one?
I get the frustration with web search. So much of the web is copy-pasted/generated rubbish that no search engine is giving the results we used to get 10 years ago. But personally (and I am biased), I'm still getting better results from Google than from DDG, and since getting access to AI overviews in Australia a month ago or so I'm getting fairly consistent good answers with that.
- semking 2y agoMy official Linkedin title is 'senior SEO n00b' (and do yourself a favor: check my profile picture anywhere). So yeah, I'm also the SEM King... that's just me trolling everywhere :D AI search does not have to come at the expense of qualitative organic results. It does not have to be one or the other. I refuse to pick one! Do you remember when Google Ads were on the RIGHT SIDEBAR and at the very top of organic results? Do you remember when Google Ads did not pollute organic results? Same logic applies to AI overviews: Google could have found a balanced approach in terms of quality and layout.