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It has reduced traffic to my website by around 65%. I live from that website. My income is a function of the traffic it gets. I spent 9 years of my life puttin
by nicbou 5mo ago
It has reduced traffic to my website by around 65%. I live from that website. My income is a function of the traffic it gets.
I spent 9 years of my life putting hard-earned information on the internet, and now big tech uses it to enrich themselves while putting me out of work. Even my backup plan - software development - is being devalued to hell. It's so damn depressing. We'll get the internet that we deserve.
- salomonk_mur 5mo agoTo be fair, the traffic you had was mostly routed by them as well. Google giveth, Google taketh away.
- ryanisnan 5mo agoCallous take. You make it seem like only Google was giving here. If Google was routing users to OP's site, surely OP had something beneficial to give.
- atoav 5mo agoNo. OP made the content Google copied with AI to their landing page, which reduced the traffic. But I forgot that they convinced you to accept AI as a magic "make copyright disappear"-technology.
- CalRobert 5mo agoHad they been correctly punished for anticompetitive practices there would be other search engines with meaningful market share.
- jmusall 5mo agoIn my humble opinion it was balanced when Google gave traffic to sites and these sites gave good results for Google to show
- intended 5mo agoGoogle giveth jack shit here. Google users wanted to find that info. Google served its users.