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Barry Schwartz commented on Google Introduces Agentic Commerce Protocol & Direct Offers Ads In AI Mode

When, I dont even see a removed comment.

Comment ID #6822446480 01/12/2026 09:05 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Introduces Agentic Commerce Protocol & Direct Offers Ads In AI Mode

Could be but Storebot handled the price/shipping validation by navigating to the product page first where it added items to the cart. What I saw last week was different, and Google passed themselves off as the referrer. If/when I see this happen again I'll post about it.

Comment ID #6822444727 01/12/2026 09:00 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Do you have a commercial site, sell things or are you a publisher relying on adverts?

Comment ID #6822443632 01/12/2026 08:58 am

PMB Brent commented on Google Introduces Agentic Commerce Protocol & Direct Offers Ads In AI Mode

Did you see my previous comment Barry?

Comment ID #6822443170 01/12/2026 08:57 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

I concur about the first paragraph. I remember JD also saying about breaking up Google and now he's their biggest cheerleader. All Trump wanted was BigTech to fall in love with him like they did with Obama/Biden and they did big time and they're being rewarded. When it was Biden, it was Schumer who was the real a-hole in that administration with blocking AOIC & AMERICA acts from having votes. If as expected the house/senate switches and Schumer is back, don't expect anything meaning to happen.

Comment ID #6822442278 01/12/2026 08:55 am

Chandan Das commented on Google Integrates Core Search Signals Into AI Overviews & AI Mode

Interesting to see Google emphasizing that AI Overviews and AI Mode are grounded in core search signals; it reinforces the importance of traditional SEO signals even as AI-driven search surfaces evolve. Integrating these signals could help reduce hallucinations and improve accuracy, but SEO strategies will still need to adapt to this hybrid ranking landscape.

Comment ID #6822434518 01/12/2026 08:35 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

I called you out because I knew you would downvote me, and you didn't let me down. Every time I seem to mention Trump, you downvote me. Well, everything Trump seems to be doing in regards with AI looks like it was written by Google. Its so blatantly pro-Google. During Biden's presidency, I was railing against Chuck Schumer, who kept "blocking" two acts which would have helped everyone (AOIC & AMERICA), whereas all these pro-BigTech are coming from Trump with XO. Twice, Trump failed to push through AI legislation: the Big Beautiful Bill was blocked, and Ted Cruz's private act was rejected 99-1, so Trump pushed it through as an XO. I am UK but I wouldn't call myself Woke or Liberal. I would call out my country's politicians if the opportunity arose but I don't like going off-topic unless someone else starts it first. Keir (doesn't deserve a knighthood) wants to allow AI free reign (ignore copyright) in the UK, I'm dead set against that. I've mentioned it in the past. UK does have censorship issues, they're trying to come up with a new law that will as people are saying silence criticism of a certain group but as its not on the topic of webmasters and websites I am not going into it.

Comment ID #6822432581 01/12/2026 08:30 am

Barry Schwartz commented on Google Introduces Agentic Commerce Protocol & Direct Offers Ads In AI Mode

that might be this <a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/googlebot-products-shopping-cart-29713.html">https://www.seroundtable.com/googlebot-products-shopping-cart-29713.html</a>

Comment ID #6822427058 01/12/2026 08:15 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

The USA already has permission to build as many bases on Greenland as it likes. At one time, the US had 5,000 personnel on the island, but it has since reduced that to about 150. No one is stopping the US from building any bases. Trump is just being a bully without any clue. For many people, it's all about the rare earth minerals that can be found in Greenland and not about the defence of the USA. If it were about defence, there's no problem, just put more boots on the ground. If Trump does push ahead with a military takeover, he'll have a hard time with his voters and fellow politicians, nevermind the Danish government. Not every republican is on board with the idea.

Comment ID #6822426697 01/12/2026 08:14 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Introduces Agentic Commerce Protocol & Direct Offers Ads In AI Mode

Last week I saw gbot interacting with our shopping cart (directly adding products to the cart with a URL and passing referrer info), so I kinda figured some sort of testing was going on. Storebot navigates more like a human, unlike what I saw gbot do last week.

Comment ID #6822425700 01/12/2026 08:11 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

When they do like the EU, they get threatened with Tariffs

Comment ID #6822424831 01/12/2026 08:09 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Yes, definitely like what X does, and Facebook should also do the same.

Comment ID #6822424660 01/12/2026 08:08 am

John A. User commented on Google Introduces Agentic Commerce Protocol & Direct Offers Ads In AI Mode

"I got a bad feeling about this.." Is this Google Marketplace? So Google takes a share of the sales and commissions, and you won't have to worry about Stripe or other transaction processors. Another monopoly in the making. Choose item you want, click and Google deals with the financials.

Comment ID #6822423782 01/12/2026 08:06 am

Taryn White commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Except Biden's policy of weakness on the world stage had a pretty significant impact globally. It is not a coincidence Russia chose to invade Ukraine and Hamas attack Israel all within Biden's 4 years. The only people okay with that outside the USA, are the far left hypocrites who have failed their own countries with bad liberal policies such as the UK and what's happening there.

Comment ID #6822421655 01/12/2026 07:59 am

Barry Schwartz commented on Google Introduces Agentic Commerce Protocol & Direct Offers Ads In AI Mode

Doubt it is related, this isn’t fully live yet.

Comment ID #6822419603 01/12/2026 07:53 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Introduces Agentic Commerce Protocol & Direct Offers Ads In AI Mode

I was waiting to see if you were going to post about this Barry. Glad you did. Maybe the recent traffic/conversion/sales starvation is related to Google launching their Universal Commerce Protocol? I didn't know Google would launch this garbage on a Sunday, but they must be in a rush to meet next quarter's profit targets. Just what we need in ecom is Google digging their teeth in deeper to draw more blood and their agentic slop causing a big increase in returns.

Comment ID #6822418448 01/12/2026 07:50 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

As a Republican in the USA, I just don't get the same vibe with some of those bashing Trump. Some of my comments, such as references to Biden as Geriatric Joe, has led some to accuse me of doing the same to the left. To me it doesn't matter if one is left or right, where they live, the color of their skin, pronouns, etc. since Google is destroying all of us equally. It's that threat of extinction, by an American monopoly, that binds us together imo. Being objective, I can see why those outside the USA would bash Trump more than Biden. Biden's policies had less of an impact on the world whereas Trump's have. Tariffs have hurt many feeling and wallets while also redefining how allies are treated/viewed in the USA. Those outside the USA may actually have a clearer picture than I. Also the FTC and DOJ serve under Trump. Had Trump instructed the DOJ to treat our website content as intellectual property and defended us, we would probably all be arguing why our pages should be ranked #1 instead of why our #1 ranked pages get no traffic.

Comment ID #6822400927 01/12/2026 06:52 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

crazy shuffling has returned. haha. AdSense earnings are in the toilet but this is very normal for Jan. They will go to 0 eventually since Google is systematically destroying most websites. It is hard to be even close to profitable these days, so how many continue bleeding money

Comment ID #6822391919 01/12/2026 06:21 am

MrSEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

No other goverment has the power to interfere with Google so it will be the US

Comment ID #6822387891 01/12/2026 06:04 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

With AI, these types of sites are cooked. They can make deals with AI companies but it won't last. Google, OpenAI, all these companies have no intention of sharing views with anybody

Comment ID #6822385050 01/12/2026 05:54 am

Rowan commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Totally off topic, but I just want to ask... Has anyone noticed Reddit is now filled with suspicious accounts trying to instigate division? I noticed “wumaos” (Chinese political trolls) are practically everywhere now. They would also take over subreddits to pump propaganda messages. Some of them are moderators too so they will censor anyone who disagrees or post any negative news regarding China/CCP. So many times I’ve caught them trying to instigate hatred by posting racial remarks. I noticed they would always post negative or racist remarks on India, the Philippines, South Korea, Japan, the US, and, believe it or not, Israel. And you can tell they are wumaos because they’ve set their profile to 18+ and private. The reason why they set it to 18+ is so that non-registered users can’t view their profiles at all. And, obviously, they set their profile to private so no one can read their post history to identify them. They would go around spreading misinformation and twisting history (i.e: Tiananmen Square, COVID, WW2, and so on). Later, I theorised that the reason why they’re posting hate comments on Israel/Jewish people is so that they can persuade other Muslim redditors with their propaganda (i.e: The US is Israel's ally. We need to counter US! Side China!). I won’t go into details, but I’m sure you all can piece the pieces.

Comment ID #6822346498 01/12/2026 02:49 am

Rowan commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

As said in my previous comment, beware of Gmail sniffing your email contents. I would highly advise content creators, like freelance writers, to ditch Google and go with some other email providers. If not, whatever articles you’ve written and uploaded to send to others via Gmail would have been scanned by Google and fed to their AI. You may want to tell your clients too, because even if you have changed, but your emails still end up in their Gmail inbox, it will still get harvested. If either of you can’t do the swap, then you gotta disable the “smart features” (Settings > General > Disable Smart Features). Of course, the disadvantage to all that is that your email spellchecks, autocorrect, and so on will be disabled. And now I keep receiving annoying notifications from Gmail that I received an email, only for it to be a social/promotional email. Lastly, always remember: if they can resort to this, it will keep getting worse. Just like all their updates and how they’ve tried to squeeze your traffic.

Comment ID #6822344498 01/12/2026 02:37 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Denmark is part of nato, so I don't know how any of this would play out. I think it's just Trump beating his chest, but the hint of using military force to take Greenland is terribly sad.

Comment ID #6822299992 01/11/2026 10:13 pm

PMB Brent commented on Google Says Don't Turn Your Content Into Bite-Sized Chunks

Not sure. All I've heard is that he has some other role within Google Search.

Comment ID #6822249104 01/11/2026 07:13 pm

Taryn White commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

It's sure sounding like he might. I can't see much good coming from this if it happens. I personally hope he doesn't. <a href="https://x.com/i/trending/2009891456752959609">https://x.com/i/trending/2009891456752959609</a>

Comment ID #6822234465 01/11/2026 06:26 pm

Taryn White commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

That screen grab of his is correct and I agree. It's just his TDS tangents are getting a bit much, almost acting like Trump is CEO of Google. I've been on this site for years, and never recall him calling out Biden or dems to this extent when they were in bed with Google even more so, if you include their near communist level of censorship orders given to big tech. I'm pretty sure John is from the UK. So it's also quite rich of him always bashing US policies, when the UK has the "cultural enrichment" problems they do and China level censorship brought on by their failed far left leaders and politicians. I agree with most other topic based things he says and like his comments. I just wish it didn't so often veer off to mostly irrelevant Trump bashing when it's Google itself to blame. He also was referencing me as "TW" before I even downvoted him. That's typical though with with liberal ideology, always trying to shame or demonize anyone who disagrees with their point of view. Even if it's as minuscule as a downvote.

Comment ID #6822230510 01/11/2026 06:14 pm

Taryn White commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Definitely!

Comment ID #6822217166 01/11/2026 05:37 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

In John's defense, I think he is of the same mind that most American politicians are useless regardless of their party. With profile's set to private, it is hard to easily confirm but I post a pic of one of his replies to me below. And yes, it was good Elon bought Twitter and exposed the truth that the Charles Manson looking Jack Dorsey wouldn't reveal. Imagine how much worse Google would be if it too were force to reveal what goes on inside GreedlePlex. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a69476b618a80bdd194d7a56eb8bfaef329dff7878f766a04fc8aeae2f1633c9.jpg

Comment ID #6822211371 01/11/2026 05:22 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Would be great if Disqus would let us set a country to display with our name or always visible in our profile at least. In my about section it does say USA, but on private profiles I see nothing.

Comment ID #6822208077 01/11/2026 05:14 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

I see some in the USA are calling Trump's push to steal Greenland as his version of the "Green New Deal."

Comment ID #6822204371 01/11/2026 05:04 pm

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