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Have you used the Google search engine in the past couple years? You’re painting a dichotomy that doesn’t exist and hasn’t for a good while. Edit: I missed yo
by willy_k 2mo ago
Have you used the Google search engine in the past couple years?
You’re painting a dichotomy that doesn’t exist and hasn’t for a good while.
Edit: I missed your final paragraph. I still disagree with this argument though, people still want to go to websites.
- keeda 2mo agoPeople still want to go to websites, but it is a rapidly plummetting number. Multiple souces are already reporting a sharp drop from referral traffic from Google search, largely because people just stop at the AI overviews. To the extent that some major sites (including Reddit, which has a content licensing deal with Google already!!) are considering blocking Google crawlers: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/search-traffic-has-declined-so-much-that-some-publishers-are-considering-opting-out-of-google-entirely/ https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/search-traffic-has-decline... https://www.techspot.com/news/113199-reddit-major-publishers-consider-blocking-google-ai-search.html https://www.techspot.com/news/113199-reddit-major-publishers...