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by maltelandwehr 1y ago
Youtube is a top 3 cited domain for many LLMs-based search and answer engines. So it should we one of the few domains that actually get significant clicks from ChatGPT, Perplexity & Co. Looking at my own behavior, I have to agree though
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by maltelandwehr 1y ago
Didn't Apple just say they might rely on another LLM lab to bring more capabilities to Siri? Why do they think the web-index-part is the one thing they should do in-house?
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by maltelandwehr 1y ago
In same cases, lower quality of search results leads to more ad clicks and thus more revenue.
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by maltelandwehr 1y ago
I like AI answers because they save time. Since Google's are so bad, I have switched to ChatGPT for 90% of my searches.
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by maltelandwehr 1y ago
> The successor is AI Visibility Optimization (AIVO) AIVO is a term pushed by one single tool/agency in the AI search space. Nobody is using it. Literally every submission you wrote on this site is to push your pseudo term.
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by maltelandwehr 1y ago
> Google lives off ads that direct users to websites, websites they are doing their damnedest to make unnecessary. People will still spend the same amount of money to purchase goods and services. Advertisers will be willing to spend mone
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by maltelandwehr 1y ago
I don't think that is too unrealistic. • Small models have performed really well in recent years. • Newer phones will have more RAM. • Private LLMs do not necessarily need to run locally.
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by maltelandwehr 1y ago
How can we adapt that to LLMs? Do LLM providers pay for access to these articles? Do I as a user have to do a micro transaction whenever an LLM generates an answer on one of those paywalled articles? Because as a user, I do not wish to read
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by maltelandwehr 1y ago
> An allowlist run by one company that site owners chose to engage with. The allow/blocklist is pre-filled by CloudFlare. The bots/crawlers/browsers are pre-categorized by CloudFlare. Defaults matter and how CloudFlare cat
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by maltelandwehr 1y ago
The horrible UX on mobile, especially when traveling to another country and having to deal with forced geo-redirects, is the main reason I have largely replaced Google with ChatGPT for my everyday search needs.
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by maltelandwehr 1y ago
I do not think it was just the bad acquisitions. Yahoo also turned from a tech company into a media company. At some point, every decision was made with a media company mindset. This includes making decisions that prioritize short-term reve
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by maltelandwehr 1y ago
How is ellm different from the more established tools in the market (Profound and Peec AI)?
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by maltelandwehr 1y ago
The 37M/day is an estimate from Rand Fishkin that often gets quoted as gospel. It is based on limited external data. OpenAI mentioned 1B/day - and had significant overall growth in usage since then. Also, 1 search on ChatGPT easil
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by maltelandwehr 2y ago
Both of these conditions are true for Ecosia. They have bylaws that prevent excessive salaries. In 2020, no one there made more than 100k as far as I know. Source: I interviewed at Ecosia for an interim CPO role.
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by maltelandwehr 2y ago
The CEO of Ecosia makes less than EUR 100k per year. At least that was the case when I interviewed there for an interim CPO role.
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by maltelandwehr 2y ago
If this is done with SEO in mind, at first they will also do a redirect for Google Bot. Then they build links to their domains. Once it has more backlinks than the real domain, the redirect is removed.
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by maltelandwehr 2y ago
The certificate mismatch does not play any role in this SEO tactic. It just is not a factor.
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by maltelandwehr 2y ago
> I don't know how accurate this writeup is There are now 5+ writeups from different attendees. They all agree on the larger points: Google has no solution to the problem. Google asked attendees if they have ideas for a solution. Go
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by maltelandwehr 2y ago
This is one of the few instances where Google is actually trying to do better but cannot figure out how. Hence this event where owners of affected websites were put in direct contact with the product managers and software developers working
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by maltelandwehr 2y ago
> Google is literally NOT the gateway to internet. Many business models rely on people finding you via Google. Lawmakers and courts in both the US, EU, Russia, Turkey, and other jurisdictions came to the conclusion that Google is in fact
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by maltelandwehr 2y ago
> What did they do to deserve that? They very loudly complained on X/Twitter and cried about losing all their revenue, business, etc. > Probably nobody even knows how all of it works. That is exactly what Google admitted at the e
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by maltelandwehr 2y ago
In September last year, Google released an update called "Helpful Content Update" (HCU) that was supposed to demote made-for-Google spam websites. Usually, a blog with dozens of articles from cheap authors that are optimized to ra
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by maltelandwehr 2y ago
In September last year, Google released an update called "Helpful Content Update" (HCU) that was supposed to demote made-for-Google spam websites. Usually, a blog with dozens of articles from cheap authors that are optimized to ra
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by maltelandwehr 3y ago
„A single banana —-v 5.2“ in Midjourney gives me flur pictures. Two of these pictures only contain a single banana.
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by maltelandwehr 3y ago
Are they scraping the Google web interface or using the API from Google?
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by maltelandwehr 4y ago
If you include Stripe, Klarna, Netflix, Uber, Robinhood, Snap, Lyft, etc. tech layoffs in recent months have topped 100,000 now.
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by maltelandwehr 4y ago
Permira is not that kind of VC. They normal for for growth opportunities. I guess they will try to expand the range of offerings from Zendesk and try to cross-sell these solutions to existing customers. Not necessarily bad for employees.
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by maltelandwehr 6y ago
In the current system all the money flows to Google, Facebook, etc. and they evade EU taxes. So, yes. A money grab. One that is dearly needed for the EU!
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by maltelandwehr 6y ago
China showed how to foster a local tech startup ecosystem. As long as Europe refuses to take the same route, the US and China will split the pie.
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by maltelandwehr 6y ago
In what world is this unexpected? Everybody who works in e-commerce has been expecting this (or other consequences like 10 day delays). At least since Black Friday.

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