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John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Your post that contained a link to Reddit was deleted by Disqus? Barry can you undelete please?

Comment ID #6811889087 12/18/2025 07:36 am

John A. User commented on Microsoft Testing Underlines In Bing Ad Description Snippets

I'd be interested in what Sachin searched for so we can get an understanding if there's a link between what was searched for and the chosen words.

Comment ID #6811888783 12/18/2025 07:35 am

Taryn White commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

I see now. Thanks for clarifying.

Comment ID #6811888667 12/18/2025 07:35 am

DataDonkey commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

The only reason so many datacenters are needed is so people can generate massive amounts of AI slop. How many hundreds of billions should be poured into datacenters so people can produce Bigfoot or baby Trump AI slop videos? Winning the AI race against China is high on Trump's agenda, but wasting billions on these datacenters so they can be used to create AI slop is a huge waste of money. A real national AI strategy in place could have prevented this waste, while protecting intellectual property, but wasteful projects is where politicians and corporations get filthy rich. Michigan is trying to repeal tax breaks given for datacenters, but they will probably get sued if they pass the law. Other states are realizing these datacenters are bad too, which is why I think a taxpayer funded Federal slush fund will become available for datacenters in the future. These big tech companies aren't going invest their own money, without heavy taxpayer support, so people can create Feeble Knievel videos.

Comment ID #6811884497 12/18/2025 07:21 am

Barry Schwartz commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Anyone else seeing movement today? The tracking tools seem calm this morning and not much chatter...

Comment ID #6811878311 12/18/2025 07:00 am

Jantje commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Thanks Barry!

Comment ID #6811877265 12/18/2025 06:56 am

Barry Schwartz commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

I think I found it and approved it.

Comment ID #6811877036 12/18/2025 06:55 am

Jantje commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

I tried yesterday, my reply was removed :(

Comment ID #6811876529 12/18/2025 06:53 am

Dimitris Abrazis commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Same here. 14 yrs old site, from 200-250K views per day to 30K views. I really don't know what is happening. Many articles deindexed and CWV huge drop with absolutely no changes from our part.

Comment ID #6811870931 12/18/2025 06:32 am

DataDonkey commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

I think I figured out what he was getting at. He may think I'm trying to win an argument. I'm not really arguing but trying to find what value China traffic has. Would also be interesting to see what measures he has taken to block bots and filter from analytics to get a clearer picture on genuine traffic. Anyway I'll delete my last post since I was kinda clueless about his winning something reply at the time.

Comment ID #6811869682 12/18/2025 06:27 am

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

I understand what you mean by consistent; they've never changed their tune, unlike JD Vance, who wanted to crush Google before the election and who is now their biggest fan. We may disagree with Bernie & Liz, but their message hasn't changed.

Comment ID #6811843164 12/18/2025 04:28 am

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Or we'll set up a GofundMe campaign for them... (Not)

Comment ID #6811842567 12/18/2025 04:25 am

Ted (or Big T) commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Drop today. No traffic, all dead.

Comment ID #6811809046 12/18/2025 03:03 am

Walter Chapman commented on Google Warns Not To Use NoIndex Tags In Pages That Use JavaScript

Cool

Comment ID #6811714838 12/18/2025 01:30 am

Taryn White commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

That doesn't make any sense.

Comment ID #6811657564 12/18/2025 12:23 am

DataDonkey commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

As Bernie beats his chest, big tech friendly bills are moving forward to possibly become law. Yesterday the US House advanced the SPEED Act which will remove hurdles to rapid construction/deployment of new datacenters. The full house could vote on it this week. <b>Bill to ease Big Tech project permits advances in House</b> - <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/ai-congres-permitting-speed-act.html?msockid=08a97d9a4e1d6dbf1d446b5f4ff06c94">https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/ai-congres-permitting-speed-act.html?msockid=08a97d9a4e1d6dbf1d446b5f4ff06c94</a> <blockquote>But recently, as AI has been seen as an increasingly important sector, support has grown among Democrats for easing the permitting process. And pressure has increased on Congress as China laps the U.S. in building out AI infrastructure, and as energy-hungry AI data centers stress an aging electric grid. “We’ve made it entirely too difficult to build big things in this country, and if we do not reform that, that will be a powerful gift that we are giving to China,” said Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., a member of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, in an interview with CNBC.</blockquote>

Comment ID #6811601196 12/17/2025 11:17 pm

Stop the Grift commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Nah, they'll just get ignored as part of the minority party. It's not surprising though--Elizabeth Warren has always been for tech regulation, and Bernie has been, and I'm sure most that post in these comments won't agree with me--the most consistent 'for the people' politician in the history of the US senate.

Comment ID #6811469379 12/17/2025 09:44 pm

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/ai-stocks-slide-as-10bn-data-centre-funding-falls-through/ar-AA1SxKkO">https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/ai-stocks-slide-as-10bn-data-centre-funding-falls-through/ar-AA1SxKkO</a> They'll bounce back I'm sure.

Comment ID #6811374838 12/17/2025 07:50 pm

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/bernie-sanders-calls-for-halt-on-ai-data-center-construction-wants-to-ensure-that-the-technology-benefits-all-of-us-not-just-the-1/ar-AA1SwQqF">https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/bernie-sanders-calls-for-halt-on-ai-data-center-construction-wants-to-ensure-that-the-technology-benefits-all-of-us-not-just-the-1/ar-AA1SwQqF</a> Sadly it is Bernie Sander & Elizabeth Warren, although I welcome this, I doubt they'll get much support, be ignored as socialists.

Comment ID #6811322544 12/17/2025 07:12 pm

googleisjoke commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

you sounds like you wanna win something don't you

Comment ID #6811256262 12/17/2025 06:02 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

What value does Chinese traffic have? China doesn't spend money and clicks used to be worth .0001 a click. Been a long time since I was in ad networks, but they all looked at Chinese traffic as garbage. Too much of it and it would flag the account for possible suspension.

Comment ID #6811179925 12/17/2025 05:02 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Ranking first on Google won't do anything to move the traffic needle. Look down thread and see the others who say their top ranks are at the bottom of the serps. Count me in for this - thousands of daily visits for being number one a couple years ago to just three lousy visits a day. That's for being number one. So if you are fighting to be number one, it isn't worth the effort cause all you'll get is bragging rights and no traffic. Just like it's Trump's economy, Shitdar owns the collective shit pile clogging Google's serp toilet bowl.

Comment ID #6811175929 12/17/2025 04:59 pm

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

I'm similar, rank first page on B&DDG but not on Google. Google's aim is to force people to use AI Overviews and click on ads; excellent content really doesn't figure in their objections, despite what they say.

Comment ID #6811047405 12/17/2025 03:25 pm

Hunar commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Conversions just completely shot. :( just gets worse and worse.

Comment ID #6811044218 12/17/2025 03:18 pm

FokGoogle commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Strange how I always rank 1 or 2 for all my products in Bing and DuckDuckGo, but I'm on page 4 or 5 (or not found) in Google.

Comment ID #6811032604 12/17/2025 02:55 pm

googleisjoke commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

interesting thing is that the site is getting chinesse traffic, but GSC reflects that too, it means that it shows in china in higher SERPs, rather than just bot / GA4 anomaly

Comment ID #6811011127 12/17/2025 02:15 pm

googleisjoke commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

growing site from scratch. let's see. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3f1e647b8503ee835c961cf4a53602a917b3b9275898271b4c9850e6a99b1f40.png

Comment ID #6811010672 12/17/2025 02:14 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Return Merchandise Authorization which is an internal number assigned to the return. Agentic shopping may be the end of direct to consumer sales for us because our customers must put in a little more thought then what AI is prepared to do for them.

Comment ID #6811002972 12/17/2025 01:59 pm

Taryn White commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

The EU should fight Google as hard as they do against free speech.

Comment ID #6810990874 12/17/2025 01:36 pm

Jantje commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Sure, I only hope my reply will not get flagged by Disqus. Examples: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1pn8xg7/help_december_12th_traffic_of_merchant_listings/">https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1pn8xg7/help_december_12th_traffic_of_merchant_listings/</a> , <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1pmc0ys/google_core_update_2025_december/">https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1pmc0ys/google_core_update_2025_december/</a>

Comment ID #6810990324 12/17/2025 01:36 pm

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