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Ben Guest commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

Now that's funny.

Comment ID #6659365669 02/26/2025 03:06 am

Bundlez commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

Odd man out here but the very nature of their complaint/suit strikes me as delusional, namely that Google "unjustly retained traffic that has historically come to Chegg." As if Netflix unjustly retained the traffic that historically had gone to Blockbuster. It's called business. Google is under no obligation to send any of their own traffic (and let's remember that it is Google's traffic, via users who are using Google's search engine) to anyone else. And the "AI stole my content" issue is a completely separate one, which is this case would be hard for this company to prove, as AIs are trained on basically the whole of the Internet, of which Chegg forms a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of one percent.

Comment ID #6659365348 02/26/2025 03:05 am

John Mu Clone commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

Google wont and don't care at all..

Comment ID #6659361504 02/26/2025 02:49 am

ChopSawBrah commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

yes hence why I said - there are two moral options - quit (hard now, but the best in the long term) -spam/steal creating original content and donating it to the internet is now total bullshit all my new posts are 100% stolen, flipped content from reddit I don't steal from other sites

Comment ID #6659357874 02/26/2025 02:34 am

Alex Gramm commented on Microsoft Bing Copilot Search

Maybe I am too old to understand the benefits of "AI Search." In fact, the "classic" web search is an AI search too. In many cases "an AI Search" didn't replace the "classic Search." However, Bing's search results are worse than those of a few years ago. I preferred to use Bing, but now I choose other search engines.

Comment ID #6659339044 02/26/2025 01:15 am

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Comment ID #6659325183 02/26/2025 12:15 am

Ukrainian commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility February 4th & 5th

I told you not to vote for Tump

Comment ID #6659325109 02/26/2025 12:15 am

Leary Liang commented on Google Crawler Updates Causing Spikes In Crawling For Some Sites

I manage several large-scale projects based on CloudFlare, handling millions of Google requests daily on average. On February 10th and February 22nd, I observed a significant spike in response times, with response times reaching as high as 1500ms on the 10th. On both days, response times remained above 500ms, and the number of requests dropped sharply to around 200,000–300,000 per day. I suspected slow bot attacks and even considered potential mechanical failures from my hosting provider, but I never thought it could be due to Google’s own technical changes. They really need better communication—businesses can’t be expected to just sit around monitoring the webmaster community every day.

Comment ID #6659290036 02/25/2025 10:17 pm

Todd commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up February 19 & 20th

I love researching articles for days and hours and paying professionals in the industry to write awesome articles and reviews for Google to strip out all my keywords realted to those pages. What I love even more is to then search those terms and see Indonesian spam and hacked sites ranking for those terms and shite websites with content written by non native English writers that makes no sense. Thanks Google. Can you make me more happy and strip out the rest of my keywords please so I can justify jumping off the 18th floor of my condo block.

Comment ID #6659276881 02/25/2025 09:44 pm

TheNewNormal commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

It's not just AI overviews, it's pretty much any info based search. I searched "speed test" and google has their own speed test above fast, ookla, etc. I search weather and Google has their own 5 day weather forecast at the top before weather dot com and the rest. Search any sports score result and it's provided at the top without having to go to espn, sports center, etc. They've basically made the entire internet irrelevant as they answer every question and keep the user on their platform to feed them ads. I'm really surprised the big players aren't more vocal on their businesses losing tons of revenue from this, but there's probably deals being made that we never hear about.

Comment ID #6659262241 02/25/2025 09:11 pm

clone21 commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

But they will lose, sure Google used your contents, and you can sue it for that and maybe get claims if you didn't hit that "agree" button when use Google things, but then after Google has right to not include your website to Google index, after all, its a service, they have right to do everything, its YOU, take the natural traffic as guaranteed, so they have right to not include a website, and I don't think you have a right to sue that?

Comment ID #6659251158 02/25/2025 08:46 pm

Sensei commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

It is definitely intentional, if not by design. They also truly are a bunch of idiots that have no grip on reality at all - and still believe in this type of shit... https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9e3a91699e798fb48522e5feb8a656f6c3829c42d7765b7c80c61bc786803261.jpg

Comment ID #6659234133 02/25/2025 08:07 pm

Bobby commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up February 19 & 20th

I'm seeing a near complete reversal as far as traffic. But the keywords are still rising ever so slowly. So while disappointing, it's still better than where I was a month ago. But I have to go back on the side of the average webmaster and say I can't make any sense of what I'm seeing. I thought I'd solved it. I haven't solved it.

Comment ID #6659218391 02/25/2025 07:30 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

<blockquote>Sometimes, I think Google Search has been taken by some retarded bunch of idiots that have no grip on reality at all.</blockquote>Greedle knows exactly what they're doing.

Comment ID #6659176482 02/25/2025 05:58 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

Greedle has bent everyone over, so it will be hard for them to pound out more revenue without committing more crimes. Redshit falling too and closed below $160. Without Greedle, Redshit is of no value.

Comment ID #6659175887 02/25/2025 05:57 pm

ChopSawBrah commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

google stock dropping hard in 2025 and no I don't think google can make up for it with more shitty tricks because the problem is not revenue but the "news"

Comment ID #6659118052 02/25/2025 04:17 pm

Sensei commented on Google Crawler Updates Causing Spikes In Crawling For Some Sites

You must get tons of business in LA with that name, especially with Googlers. <b>Edit:</b> you changed your username just now, but everyone can still see your domain under the About secton in your profile which was the same username you had before. It's just a shame the AlDS for all the people using your website will never go away that easy.

Comment ID #6659107356 02/25/2025 04:00 pm

Ali Lal Shah commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Into New Years 2025

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/efdda04d0f37ea1a658eaf5a1dae9f5c1c6eb3b6aa43c531fe47343e85fe9d91.png I Getting A Lot Of Impressions but Not Clicks i dont Know why It's happening even I have Change The Content. My Dream Is To See My Graph Going Up Just Like Others But Not Getting 😪 Any Suggestions?

Comment ID #6659088790 02/25/2025 03:33 pm

Rogério Ceni Coelho commented on Google Crawler Updates Causing Spikes In Crawling For Some Sites

Same problem here in Brazil !!!

Comment ID #6659035459 02/25/2025 02:16 pm

John A. User commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

"Just to let you know, you're getting an uptick in searches for this specific topic as it is a test question for a company testing AI. Here's the link to the company: <a href="https://app.dataannotation.tech">https://app.dataannotation.tech</a> The test question/prompt is as follows: XXXXXXXX? The prompt then provides two answers and the user has to evaluate which is correct based off the prompt and the returned answer. Hope this helps give you some clarity on traffic!" Seems like a new company that needs being bought back down again. I'm not seeing any irregular referrals but I'm guessing they're keeping the traffic. The person didn't leave an email address so can't go back to him.

Comment ID #6659021099 02/25/2025 01:55 pm

John A. User commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

2 line wikipedia pages are ranking above more useful and indepth pages.

Comment ID #6659016026 02/25/2025 01:48 pm

John A. User commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

Internet companies are like rating agencies, surely the latter like Moody's and S&P are regulated so therefore SEs should be also.

Comment ID #6659015220 02/25/2025 01:47 pm

Rafael commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

This has a lot of logic according to what we really see in the SERP. Hacked governmental websites ranking to things like Windows 7 iso download (and a lot, lot more here in Brazil). Also, we see really lazy/spam websites with 2 lines of text ranking above websites with reviews and real photos of the product. That is sad and demonstrates 0 respect for workers like we. Sometimes, I think Google Search has been taken by some retarded bunch of idiots that have no grip on reality at all. It was ultra-good on the past...

Comment ID #6659014598 02/25/2025 01:46 pm

John A. User commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

It'll take time as Google are so ingrained in the Internet that newbies are struggling to get a voice. Everyone is transitioning to AI, no one's given a thought about being different. Whenever I search the internet, its always with UDM14 and thats not perfect as that has Youtube in the list. Like the Internet Bubble of the early 2000's and the 3DTV bubble, the AI bubble will burst, most aren't making money, as someone pointed out to me, nVidia are but I think they're the exception.

Comment ID #6659014402 02/25/2025 01:45 pm

John A. User commented on Microsoft Bing When Searching For Google Chrome, Gemini or X's Grok

Good point, can't disagree, I wasn't thinking of chip at the time, more the end user stuff. I don't see much in the way of adverts or subscriptions for AI services to the public.

Comment ID #6659011191 02/25/2025 01:40 pm

John A. User commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

I will start a GoFundMe.Com so that Sundar Pichai can continue to eat caviar every day. Please donate to this worthy cause.

Comment ID #6659008871 02/25/2025 01:37 pm

Nerdelbaum Frink commented on Microsoft Bing When Searching For Google Chrome, Gemini or X's Grok

Nvidia has made boatloads of money "from AI"

Comment ID #6658996957 02/25/2025 01:19 pm

Curly commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

And that is why they need an internal shake up, the employees in the search need to be audited

Comment ID #6658962412 02/25/2025 12:27 pm

Sensei commented on Google Sued By Chegg Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue

Ironically, this shit was just exposed today going on with some IPhones: <a href="https://x.com/SyeClops/status/1894426031064576324">https://x.com/SyeClops/status/1894426031064576324</a>

Comment ID #6658945573 02/25/2025 12:02 pm

Aurel commented on Google Crawler Updates Causing Spikes In Crawling For Some Sites

French publisher here. We're experiencing the same issue as the one mentioned on WebmasterWorld (same date, 6th februrary), but only on one of our subdomains. Interestingly, crawling remains stable across our other subdomains. We've checked : no changes in the robots.txt file, no spike in errors, response time increased a bit. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a24a2a5c973654a2c3bdf9c9e0a9d9c73957d9552a6b917943bc07d1b3f1eac9.png

Comment ID #6658936213 02/25/2025 11:48 am

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