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Google Search lets creators know more about their reach
- orionblastar 3mo agoMirror without Paywall: https://archive.is/fcl2T https://archive.is/fcl2T
- cpncrunch 3mo agoWeirdly paywall is borken of safari….just a grey full screen modal overlay with nothing to click. But you can just use reading mode anyway.
- harkdif 3mo agoIt may just be me, but I find googles search console surprisingly inaccurate or at least hard to parse. Even the data within it is often conflicting and I'm not sure why the results show as they do. Things like it will show a click through rate for specific pages but have no correlation to the search terms that drove that click, yet show impressions for the page far beyond what it shows for terms. Can't imagine it will be better for something as hard to track as creator tracking cross-platform.
- xnx 3mo agoThis is mostly by design. Google doesn't want it to be possible to deanonymize the data.
- sylware 3mo agoPlease gogol, stop being super evil, restore interop with noscript/basic HTML web engines.
- tchalla 3mo agoDoes everyone see this? I can’t.
- khurs 3mo agowhat do you mean? See what?
- tchalla 3mo agoThe option that’s talked about on the main post.
- AlienRobot 3mo agoI don't have it yet. Probably getting A/B tested or slowly rolled out like everything else on Google.
- jasonvorhe 3mo agoReading about anything Google Search in 2026 gives off some Yahoo vibes around 2006.
- e40 3mo agoAlso gives off desperation vibes with Google finally doing some innovation on their monopolistic product now that it’s losing market share to AI.
- cjbgkagh 3mo agoThey made search worse on purpose to make more money, then tried to gaslight everyone by blaming SEO. It was getting rather hard to find things with it, I would have to explain to people that search wasn’t always this bad. I have negative sympathy for them.
- p-e-w 3mo agoIf they indeed made search worse “on purpose”, there should be plenty of alternatives with better results. I’ve tried about a dozen of them, including paid ones like Kagi, and found the quality of results to be universally worse than Google’s, especially for niche searches where it matters the most.
- weird-eye-issue 3mo agoYour logic makes no sense. Just because something is worse relative to how it used to be does not mean alternatives are now better than it.
- cjbgkagh 3mo agoIt takes a huge amount of money to compete with Google in search and all Google has to do to destroy that investment is to dial back the sandbagging. They really did have a moat.
- Forgeties79 3mo agoI recently tried Kagi again after not being particularly impressed 2-3 years ago. Swapped it to default after a week. For me it works better than Google probably 80% of the time now. Google also did 100% make search worse on purpose as this great piece discusses: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ Doctorow goes into greater detail on how Google purposely worsened Google search in his book Enshittification. It’s a very thorough chapter and it’s clear what they did. They were chasing “engagement hacks.”
- xnx 3mo agoOfficial source: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/07/search-console-social-video-platforms https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/07/search-con...
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- xgulfie 3mo agoIt's for people who make "Content"
- redsymbol 3mo agoThe most interesting part of the official announcement [0]: "As people gravitate toward firsthand perspectives..." That implies Google is seeing a shift away from people relying on just AI-generated summaries, and checking the cited sources more. I have certainly found that when I ask a chat tool something, and then go to the human-written source webpage, it's not uncommon I get a different insight than what the AI implied. Not always of course, but often enough that I have noticed it. [0] https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/07/search-console-social-video-platforms https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/07/search-con...
- swatcoder 3mo ago> "a different insight" What a generous euphemism. Depending on the topic, it's not unusual to see Google AI search referencing links that indicate the exact opposite of what it presents in its prose. So many of these tools are presented as if they're doing something you'd intuitively expect of a human operator, like collating search results and then summarizing them in this case, but the actual operation of them is so alien to us that our intuitions don't apply and these presentations are all but fraudulent. Because it's presentation cites references, and because those references sometimes reinforce the expression of the AI prose, we grant it trust, but it doesn't use those references in the way a human would and so the relevance of them being cited is radically different (and weaker) than we're accustomed to. The closest example in human behavior might be the rushed, naive student who just pastes citations into an already written paper at the last minute, but even that's an anthropomorphism that misrepresents the alien ways in which the tool works.
- jtbayly 3mo agoYesterday ChatGPT gave me 5 references to a site that doesn’t exist. It’s such a bummer how useless these tools are so much of the time, while seeming so helpful. In fact they are actually helpful, which is why it’s so irritating.
- echelon 3mo agoMeanwhile, I asked ChatGPT to verify the ALIAS DNS records of its search results so I could build evidence Netlify was blocking me [1], and it worked flawlessly. I've replaced Google almost wholesale with ChatGPT and Claude. [1] If you use Claude Code to assess a Netlify website (even your own), they'll block your IP address from the entire netlify.app IP range.
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- shevy-java 3mo agoNow if Google only were to have a good search engine ...
- kundi 3mo agoThank you Google for giving us subpar suggestions while making a fortune
- motbus3 3mo agoThe company I worked from added a feature where we added context-based translation as we found that 90% of automated translations keep doing same mistakes. We marked all pages canonical and not canonical and we did everything to ensure we were not trying to pass as we were faking content. It was then that we were wiped out from search results. We got our consultant to get official support from Google and then they simply said: "oopsie we had bug here. Sorry not sorry"
- Aboutplants 3mo agoMy Google usage has gone down fairly significantly in the past couple of years as I use whatever free models to do nearly all of what I used Google search for. The only thing that Google has me with right now is YouTube and Gmail.
- Waterluvian 3mo agoFor now, until they’ve Googled the product into garbage, AI is so much better at getting me exactly what I’m seeking. I wonder if when considering all the ad slop that comes with every Google search or website load, it might actually be more energy friendly, or at least comparable?
- ramijames 3mo agoAm I the only one who thinks that Google Analytics and its brethren are TERRIBLE in actually providing useful data for making decisions for marketing and sales purposes?
- codazoda 3mo agoYou’re not alone. I haven’t looked at this for my own content (I really only publish on the web) but I’m encouraged that it’s search and not analytics. I don’t use Google Analytics on my site for privacy reasons. I’m kinda hoping this works without it, using their data, not mine.