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The decline of Google and rise of alternative searches as the source of traffic
- jruohonen 5mo ago"I hope that this is good news." Me too, but the issue is more nuanced. Google's bots are already being blocked by some mainstream sites due to the crappy "AI-search" (a.k.a. LLM-summarization), which, of course, is a wet dream for Google and the like. Some are starting to block Google's crawlers also for small personal sites: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/DoYouNeedGooglebotCrawling https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/DoYouNeedGoogle...