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Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

We may also have this then, I like it just put some of my keywords in and nice to see I am number 1

Comment ID #6835391530 02/08/2026 05:53 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Maybe the food blogs closed prior to AI retreating because of the Frankenstein recipe problem? I'm not sure, because I'm in ecom and even 100% impossible to find products we sell get no traffic from Google because of their ad spam. Just remember there are many like you who build sites and monetize with ads. Very few niches have no AI and ads. If you do build food blogs, you may not be competing against Google (for now), but the competition may be intense as others like you enter niches where AI isn't present or displayed often.

Comment ID #6835363084 02/08/2026 04:38 pm

googleisjoke commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

that means to start food blog, but I saw many food blogs that just dropped as anyone else

Comment ID #6835331038 02/08/2026 03:26 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Because AI is just scrape, spin and publish. Google has stolen ingredients from recipe bloggers, spun the ingredients together to output single disastrous final recipes. If a recipe site is doing good, that just means Google and other AI chatbots realize they can't easily steal a recipe without copying it in its entirety. So if you want to create sites that get traffic, you must do the same and find niches where AI isn't stealing all the traffic. Barry had a number of posts regarding what are known as AI generated Frankenstein recipes. You will find Barry's most recent post <a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-unshipping-frankenstein-recipes-40888.html">https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-unshipping-frankenstein-recipes-40888.html</a> on his homepage, which links to his previous posts about the topic.

Comment ID #6835247214 02/08/2026 12:12 pm

googleisjoke commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

but still why do sites like this are doing so well? I see cooking sites and they just crush it especially US guys, there must be something to it, it's just a.. blog <a href="http://happyfoodstube.com">http://happyfoodstube.com </a> also there are more of them here <a href="https://aruljohn.com/websites-using-mediavine">https://aruljohn.com/websites-using-mediavine</a>

Comment ID #6835229131 02/08/2026 11:30 am

John A. User commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

And @disqus_tCRyPV6vXh:disqus , well, they have Qwant, which uses the Bing index if I'm correct. They could do more to support them. Qwant is really nice except for the small amount of pictures and videos they have, they should get rid of those and wahey.... Qwant does both France and mostly worldwide.

Comment ID #6835226381 02/08/2026 11:23 am

googleisjoke commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

worldwide SE? or some sort of local just for France?

Comment ID #6835225133 02/08/2026 11:20 am

Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

I think my country is angry (UK) I am going next week to the board meetings with the government and the big teach to discuss the effects on publishers. France has just said they will do their own search engine.

Comment ID #6835217724 02/08/2026 11:01 am

Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

He should just tell the truth, otherwise hes scamming he could say he could move them to generative AI SEO but we both know that's a waste of time

Comment ID #6835216172 02/08/2026 10:57 am

DataDonkey commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

The talk about UBI is all hot air imo. Government can't afford it because income taxes drop as people lose jobs, sales taxes drop as people quit spending due to a lack of money and property taxes drop because people can't afford to pay them if they have no income. Government will find themselves financially handcuffed, due to a lack of people paying taxes, and unable to serve their basic functions. This may be the temporary dystopia phase and destruction of capitalism Mo Gawdat speaks of where most suffer except those imposing their destructive AI on the world. The only ones who would be able to afford to pay UBI would be the big tech companies. Since these companies control American politicians, I just don't see any laws passed in the USA forcing them to pay a tax for the destruction they caused. Other countries may and should make big tech companies pay for the harm they caused to their economies. In the USA there will be talk about UBI to get votes and citizen support, much like Trump sending tariff reparation checks to citizens that hasn't happened, but I think it will only get worse to be a long term or permanent era of dystopia.

Comment ID #6835213558 02/08/2026 10:50 am

Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

true I'm a published author on amazon and I still got crushed. I wrote it all myself. Thousands and thousands of pages. I wrote it at 3am all night long. Everything now stolen and no pay once server and web/subscription/accountancy (who I don't need any more)/tax (that I won't pay anymore) and all costs paid. I would be better off on benefits. I rage quit.

Comment ID #6835207659 02/08/2026 10:35 am

Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

It's fine to say this now but google has stolen our work and our income now so where is universal income? whilst paying engineers 500k to build more ai machines to steal more

Comment ID #6835206661 02/08/2026 10:33 am

googleisjoke commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

yes i read that, so AI is basically amplifier who has the most power and how he use it

Comment ID #6835194340 02/08/2026 10:00 am

Alireza Naji commented on ChatGPT & Perplexity Treat Structured Data As Text On A Page

It is interesting to note that the code in the image is not a schema at all. The schema should reference the schema.org and use the standard properties and fields of this library in the json ld structure. Even calling this code a schema is wrong. I should add that a json ld structure should also be built based on linked semantic data, otherwise it is of no use to ranking systems.

Comment ID #6835193628 02/08/2026 09:58 am

Rowan commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

If some of you remember, I once shared that I have a friend who’s still into this SEO game, helping clients to rank on Google. We just met for drinks and I asked him about it, and he said it is not good. His clients' sales are in the gutter and they’re demanding answers from him, which he doesn’t have. He, too, found the crazy decoupling pattern going on and the huge divergence in their analytics – “impressions” are increasing but clicks are dropping like a stone. He says he’s in the predicament of whether to tell the truth that SEO is pretty much dead due to AI overviews/mode, or lie his way about SEO and give irrelevant information about improving their on-page content and SEO. When he says that, I couldn’t help feeling his job is like some scammer selling hope. But I do know even if he lies, his clients will lose their patience and fire him. It is even more hilarious when you see SEO subreddit or Black Hat World members still saying “SEO isn’t dead, you just gotta adapt.”

Comment ID #6835186828 02/08/2026 09:38 am

googleisjoke commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

got it

Comment ID #6835184536 02/08/2026 09:31 am

Mark commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

How can he write it himself? It's extremely obvious he's not a native, his posts often don't make sense in parts. He needs to either outsource, or probably more likely just target his home market, whatever country that is. I'd rather rank in Bulgaria, India or Slovakia than not rank at all in the first world markets these 3rd world seo's want to play in.

Comment ID #6835179143 02/08/2026 09:15 am

DataDonkey commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Some of your comments, including "<i>could it be that our content just sucks</i>," has me thinking you are looking for a technical solution to somehow overcome Google's greed. If our content was bad, Google would not have stolen it and republished it in AI Overviews. This means our content is so good, Google essentially rebranded it as theirs so they could take credit and profit from our many years of work. You may want to read some of what Mo Gawdat has to say about AI and the future. He's the ex-Googler who predicted a temporary dystopia starting in 2027 and the need for UBI (Universal Basic Income) as massive job losses occur. Below is a story published yesterday from an interview with Mo Gawdat in September. <b>Ex-Google X leader thinks AI is about to expose a fatal flaw in capitalism</b> - <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-google-x-exec-mo-gawdat-ai-threatens-ceos-capitalism-2026-2">https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-google-x-exec-mo-gawdat-ai-threatens-ceos-capitalism-2026-2</a> <blockquote>"The challenge that humanity faces today is not the rise of AI, it's the rise of AI in an age where humanity is at its lowest morality," he said.</blockquote>

Comment ID #6835153723 02/08/2026 07:48 am

John A. User commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Politicians are all bought and paid for. They sell their soul to the devil. The only time when a politician probably votes ethically is when there's no business interest.

Comment ID #6835122702 02/08/2026 05:13 am

Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

You should just write it yourself.

Comment ID #6835121042 02/08/2026 05:03 am

Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

I take this back, it was specifically for me, my traffic keeps declining.

Comment ID #6835120987 02/08/2026 05:03 am

Sam commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Gemini can't really be counted as it is forced. Also they are burning money, and what makes me mad is these things have been trained on my words without my permission. I sat up until 3am while breast feeding writing those words FFS, due to my niche no-one would know what I know so it has taken things from me and put them in there but the only source could be me due to how obscure my writing is and life experiences. This week we have the CMA roundtables so it will be interesting to see what comes out of that, it does not cover past harm just future. Too late now really.

Comment ID #6835120411 02/08/2026 04:59 am

googleisjoke commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

oo https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6fc97994de1b1925e80a010847791070345f612f27980fad1533fa5ddd94d326.png

Comment ID #6835118615 02/08/2026 04:49 am

googleisjoke commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

or is it this way? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/de990494577043f908532f3ab472eb4a2757ba8f10839aa3beaa7a15f8b96b84.png

Comment ID #6835118329 02/08/2026 04:47 am

googleisjoke commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

yeah i recall how many people in mediavine group was crying about this, so yeah it affects natives too

Comment ID #6835103503 02/08/2026 03:12 am

racefan01 commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Absolutely! Mine too. Real-time traffic spikes, then plummets to almost zero within two hours. I haven't seen anything like that in over 10 years!

Comment ID #6835102323 02/08/2026 03:02 am

Dan commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Yeah, I don't get it, my friend, I just don't get it anymore...

Comment ID #6835100732 02/08/2026 02:49 am

Ted (or Big T) commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

This update not for US anr English language. Discover traffic was dead, I'm from EU, my website is local language.

Comment ID #6835094244 02/08/2026 01:49 am

racefan01 commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

What are they hoping for? AI will make up news? I just don't understand the nonsense going on right now.

Comment ID #6835090901 02/08/2026 01:16 am

Dan commented on Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Dead since December 12, pulling in almost 10 million clicks a year from it, at times more. Wiped overnight, 0 clicks and basically 0 impressions since this point. Didn't want to rely on this type of traffic but seeming Google is shifting to AI it just became so important as a news site.

Comment ID #6835080332 02/07/2026 11:45 pm

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