I keep reading that #GoogleSearch changes are killing small sites. They are indeed.
Last year I figured that the only way to keep my blog somewhat relevant was to strengthen the direct commucation with readers. I bet on #RSS and #ActivityPub.
Year over year, Google traffic share went down from 46% to 25% and direct traffic share went up from 37% to 54%. And the total traffic is up!
Psychology news robots distributing from dozens of sources: https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org
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There has been a lot of talk lately in tech circles and on YouTube about
how to get out of receiving AI-generated suggestions when you do a web
search -- which is now increasingly the default on Google.
While sometimes convenient, AI suggestions have 3 main problems:
a) They are often wrong,
b) They make you scroll way down the page to see the actual websites, &
c) They use all the earth's websites as their database, thereby stealing
everyone's content and rendering visiting the actual content creator
websites mute (unless AI answers wrong).
Here are some ways to turn off the AI in web search:
https://searx.tuxcloud.net/search -- This site is part of a network
of privately hosted sites using the same open-source search software. I
notice that you can not do a site-specific search like in Google or
DuckDuckGo ("site:microsoft.com Outlook questions"). See also https://searx.space/ for a list of other search URLs in the network.
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It's primitive... but it works... mostly...
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good
If you’re tired of Google’s AI Overview extracting all value from the web while also telling people to eat glue or run with scissors, you can turn it off—sort of. Google has been telling people its AI box at the top of search results is the future, ...continues
Can someone with mad computer skillz tell me if this is legit, or if doing so will open a wormhole to a shady hacker underworld that immediately steals my identity?
(also, if any members of the shady hacker underworld are reading this and tempted to respond, I’ll only believe you if you say “scout’s honor”. Can’t fool me!)
"The vision is that there will be a... Jarvis assistant in your phone that locks you into their ecosystem so hard that you'll never leave," Jenson continued, referencing the superpowered AI assistant in Marvel comics that can make meals for Iron Man and help him fight bad guys. "That vision is pure catnip. The fear is that they can't afford to let someone else get there first."
@daringfireball FWIW here’s a bookmarklet to convert the currently-viewed Google search to the new clean “Web” view:
javascript:document.location+='&udm=14'
To use in Safari, for example: bookmark any random page temporarily, and then you can edit the address to this instead. If you make this one of your top several Favorites, you can access it quickly just by tapping the URL bar.
(I wrote that whole thing in one sitting. No breaks. Not even a drink of water.) #googlesearch#google#aislop
Someone actually built a Chrome extension to "Hide annoying Google AI Overviews". LOL. Right now it only has 2,000 users, but I wouldn't be surprised if it reaches millions in a few months when SGE (Search Generative Experience) will be rolled out globally. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hide-google-ai-overviews/neibhohkbmfjninidnaoacabkjonbahn Duckduckgo is also releasing similar tech using AI .
@nixCraft I tried to replace #googlesearch with #duckduckgo for a few months, but I was missing interesting links, so I was using more and more the !g to switch to Google Search.
Finally, I switched to #whoogle a #selfhosted version version of Google Search without any ads, JavaScript, AMP links, cookies, IP address tracking or Overviews.
The #AI-powered "Search Generative Experience (#SGE)" that the company had been trialing for months is rolling out to everyone in the #US. The top of many results (especially questions) are now dominated by an #AIBox that scrapes the #web and gives you a sometimes-correct summary without needing to click on a single result.
ROFL Bing and Google, you can tell there is a huge different with and without Safe Search turned on; I've seen some shit to get a reaction gif, Google clearly has their head in the game.
Microsoft, they're freaking drunk at the keyboard with Bing. Literally don't give a damn, man!
"AI-generated content replacing links on some of the most valuable space on the internet, in particular, has left media types with a lot of questions [...]
The News filter disappearing from Google search results for some users this week won’t help publishers sleep any easier."
My thoughts about The Verge's article, The people who ruined the Internet and Danny Sullivan's response, and the conversation swirling around #SEO and the suckiness of the #Internet.