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The decline of Google and rise of alternative searches as the source of traffic (stfn.pl)
8 points by speckx 3 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
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"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/DoYouNeedGoogle...




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