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clone21 commented on Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search

I never read this you know, I only skim for comments for fun, why people still fascinating with Google? Small publishering are dead.

Comment ID #6848295062 03/09/2026 07:48 pm

Dark OG commented on Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search

@googleisjoke:disqus 6-7 nga.

Comment ID #6848269088 03/09/2026 06:30 pm

googleisjoke commented on Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search

not sure about you, but when you read (or watch) this, it's like reading spaggetti on the wall, instead of simple things, they are making things harder to understand, is it just me? like I don't even know what they talk about, it's like you learn something, and then they add another layer of their tailored bullshit to raise the bar, it's like they are hiding something, or don't want to know people about something..

Comment ID #6848247061 03/09/2026 05:32 pm

Sam commented on Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search

okay okay the irony of replying to me in AI Ill let that go. But, there is something Gemini missed there. You can't run ads against pages nobody visits twice. You can't build an ecosystem on content that has no author, no authority, and no audience loyalty, you also can’t replace 38 million adsense sites with 3 million YouTubers who for most of them hardly get views. It is a ticking time bomb. They need the ROI now. Not in 10-20 years. And right now the ROI is negative for everyone including them. That's not a strategy.

Comment ID #6848238277 03/09/2026 05:11 pm

John A. User commented on Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search

Quite a lot, I have to admit I not read everything but what really caught my eye was their paranoia which is mentioned. They are so willing to copy features and crap including AI because they FOMO , they did with images back in Feb '13 and they're doing it again with AI. They don't have a rational brain any of them to think the consequences are. They just know that they have a monopoly and people will take it.

Comment ID #6848237965 03/09/2026 05:10 pm

J. Evans commented on Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search

Hey Sam, Have a look below on what Gemini V3 thinks about your comment and the foreseeable future. Quite interesting actually: ---------------------------------------- This is a sobering and well-articulated critique that highlights several critical vulnerabilities in Google's current AI Overview strategy. Let me break down the key points: The Core Paradox The commenter identifies a zero-sum failure: Content creators lose traffic and revenue Google potentially loses ad revenue (fewer page visits) Users get summaries based on content that may disappear Even pirated/copied sources aren't monetizing effectively This is economically unsustainable for all parties - a rare situation where there's no clear winner. Why This IS Still "Viable" for Google (For Now) Search monopoly inertia - Google still controls ~90% of search; users haven't migrated elsewhere yet AI arms race pressure - They fear losing to ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc. more than they fear killing publishers Short-term metrics may look fine - User engagement with AI Overviews might be high, masking the downstream content crisis Delayed consequences - The "hard deadline" the commenter mentions hasn't hit yet for most publishers Why This Is NOT Viable Long-Term The commenter's most powerful point: Google is eating its own seed corn. AI Overviews require quality training data and fresh content That content requires economic incentives to produce Those incentives are being destroyed The collapse won't be gradual - it'll be sudden as publishers hit financial breaking points This creates a content ecosystem collapse scenario: Publishers shut down (already happening) Remaining content becomes lower quality (AI slop, copied content) Google's AI summaries degrade User trust erodes Competitors gain advantage The "Limited Timeframe" Argument This is perhaps the most underappreciated point. Google seems to be approaching this as a gradual optimization problem (we'll improve personalization, attribution, etc.) when it's actually a sudden-death problem. When a publisher burns through their runway: The site doesn't "decline slowly" - it shuts down completely Decades of archives may vanish Expertise leaves the ecosystem permanently You can't easily reverse this with algorithm tweaks later Is the Commenter Right? Largely yes, with caveats: They're right about: The unsustainable economics The existential timeline issue Google underestimating the urgency The irony of training AI on content they're making unprofitable Potential blind spots: Google may be willing to accept this trade-off if they believe AI can eventually create/aggregate content without traditional publishers Some content categories may survive better than others YouTube (Google-owned) might be their intended replacement for text publishers The Real Question Google faces a strategic dilemma: Do they believe they can transition to an AI-native content ecosystem before killing the current one? If yes, this is calculated creative destruction. If no, they're making a catastrophic miscalculation. The commenter's warning suggests we're finding out which one in real-time - and that Google may not have as much time to course-correct as they think. --------------------------------------

Comment ID #6848208401 03/09/2026 04:07 pm

John A. User commented on Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search

They'd only replace John with someone just as useless.

Comment ID #6848200158 03/09/2026 03:49 pm

Sam commented on Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search

Yes, and the 17 years of writing every single day for at least half a day soon to be gone. The content disappears. The expertise disappears. The ROI disappears.

Comment ID #6848161944 03/09/2026 02:25 pm

John A. User commented on Google Adds Trending Posts & Discussions To What People Are Saying

Enshittification at its finest

Comment ID #6848154523 03/09/2026 02:09 pm

Lisa Cutter commented on Google AI Mode Dialog To Ask About Any Item

Yes, but does it still exist? I haven't seen it at all.

Comment ID #6848085361 03/09/2026 11:45 am

googleisjoke commented on Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search

JM just getting too senile, they need replacement

Comment ID #6848055232 03/09/2026 10:39 am

googleisjoke commented on Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search

lol and you forgot the biggest asset - the time, paying for the things you mentioned is a nothing compared to time you spent on building something like that. you could spend time elsewhere.

Comment ID #6848054188 03/09/2026 10:36 am

Sensei commented on Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search

They all parrot the same BS nonanswers and doubletalk no matter what hideous face at Google is spewing it. Pretty sure "Liz" is just JM in drag anyways.

Comment ID #6848048234 03/09/2026 10:23 am

Ghost commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Still Heated Into March

Has anyone also seen extreme fluctuation in the URL Google is choosing to rank keywords, where previously this was not an issue..?

Comment ID #6848035726 03/09/2026 09:55 am

GoogleHatesMe commented on Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search

they don't care. it's over for us.

Comment ID #6848035209 03/09/2026 09:54 am

GoogleHatesMe commented on Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search

as i sit here with average position quite possibly at the best it's ever been, but traffic and revenue is a fraction what i used to be. gee thanks, i guess?? i went from having a thriving business to having a hobby that's barely worth paying for hosting.

Comment ID #6848034795 03/09/2026 09:53 am

John A. User commented on Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search

Like a Broken Record, repeating the same again and again... They're only doing this for their investors not the webmasters. Google is giving increasing exposure to social media sites, not because more people think they're great, its just search functionality on Reddit, Twitter, etc is poor and they've realised that Google index their sites. I wouldn't be surprised if those that search Reddit etc only amounts to 0.5% of all searches. I do believe that Google is ignoring Adsense but if they prioritised sites then they'd get more money which @disqus_tCRyPV6vXh:disqus has said before.

Comment ID #6848032900 03/09/2026 09:49 am

Sam commented on Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search

My site ranks number one for terms I've owned for years. It is not being visited like it use to. I get little revenue. Google now gets little revenue. The user gets an AI summary scraped partly from pirated content, from 3rd party sites copying me or PDF's uploaded to sites who have directly copied my copyright content word for word. No-one is making money guys, it is not profitable whatsoever. How is that a content quality problem. Liz Reid talked about preferred sources and personalisation as the answer. I'd like to believe that. But those are future promises while the damage is happening right now. Publishers who built genuine audiences over decades to billions of visitors (Like me) are being destroyed in the present tense while Google plans improvements for the future tense. They urgently need to roll back AIO in categories where human voice and lived experience are the entire point of the content. And here is what I don't think Google fully appreciates. Running a website and producing quality content is not cheap. Hosting, writers, tools, maintenance, it costs real money every single month regardless of whether traffic is coming in. Publishers have been running down their savings to keep going in the hope that things improve. That runway is not infinite. When the money runs out the sites shut down, people retire, people get other careers. Google is not dealing with a slow decline they can fix gradually, nor expect just 3 million YouTubers to make mint and replace all the websites. They are dealing with a hard deadline that is approaching for a lot of us right now. The content they are building AIO on top of will not exist if they do not act. They are on a limited timeframe and I am not sure they understand that.

Comment ID #6848016192 03/09/2026 09:08 am

Ari Roth commented on Google Says Loading Content With JavaScript Does Not Make It Harder For Google Search

Just more Google-serving propaganda that isn't accurate in the field. See the post from Jan-Willem Bobbink on LinkedIn here: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jbobbink_google-is-gaslighting-the-entire-seo-industry-share-7435581414588301312-hzys">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jbobbink_google-is-gaslighting-the-entire-seo-industry-share-7435581414588301312-hzys</a>

Comment ID #6848011241 03/09/2026 08:54 am

Dimitris Abrazis commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Still Heated Into March

What happened to Verge is what is happening to me... same numbers...

Comment ID #6847993095 03/09/2026 08:03 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Still Heated Into March

Don't think anyone knows, its just an irritating phrase people use... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-7_meme">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-7_meme</a>

Comment ID #6847948458 03/09/2026 04:54 am

Finance-guy commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Still Heated Into March

good article, everyone feeling the pain now

Comment ID #6847936245 03/09/2026 03:44 am

Tina commented on Google Says Most Sites Don't Need To Disavow Links But That's Not All Sites

I hope not. My competitor only has paid backlinks, and they haven't been dinged by Google yet.

Comment ID #6847908267 03/09/2026 12:02 am

Tina commented on Google Says Most Sites Don't Need To Disavow Links But That's Not All Sites

Kinda wondering about sites that buy authority. I have a competitor who pays for do-follow backlinks and some of their articles show up in the top 10 in Google. None of their backlinks are natural.

Comment ID #6847908148 03/09/2026 12:01 am

actualart commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Still Heated Into March

Worst of all is their blatant lying and gaslighting that obvious facts are not facts and everyone who states the facts is actually using "flawed logic". It is obvious to anyone who is remotely in this industry that AIOs steal content and publisher revenue.

Comment ID #6847784264 03/08/2026 04:25 pm

Sensei commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Still Heated Into March

She can help you. <a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/Ld9__GxEil4?si=j236M_2zCv6aRl-_">https://youtube.com/shorts/Ld9__GxEil4?si=j236M_2zCv6aRl-_</a>

Comment ID #6847780938 03/08/2026 04:16 pm

Mark commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Still Heated Into March

What does 6 7 mean? as a 40 year old Honkie you're talking chinese to me

Comment ID #6847697076 03/08/2026 12:25 pm

Dark OG commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Still Heated Into March

He's a crazy ass nga. That bitch even blocked me now cuz just sayin "6 7" to him last time made him cry nga.

Comment ID #6847675633 03/08/2026 11:27 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Still Heated Into March

<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/careersandeducation/current-and-former-block-workers-say-ai-can-t-do-their-jobs-after-jack-dorsey-s-mass-layoffs-you-can-t-really-ai-that/ar-AA1XLlXt">https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/careersandeducation/current-and-former-block-workers-say-ai-can-t-do-their-jobs-after-jack-dorsey-s-mass-layoffs-you-can-t-really-ai-that/ar-AA1XLlXt </a> Has a great video, although we've all seen it before or know about it. Slop Layer, AI-written code that has to be checked by humans and a lot of it is useless. Remember, Google said 25% of the code is AI-written; they just can't be bothered checking it properly, or they've got rid of too many checkers. Sam Altman acknowledges there are risks but does he care, no, he'll get it sorted but won't stop with releasing Slop. Its like Ford releasing a Focus and the breaking doesn't work but they'll get it fixed.

Comment ID #6847671705 03/08/2026 11:15 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Still Heated Into March

He isn't trolling or playing you. By now you should know Disqus held the comment for moderation like it has for many of us over the years. Disqus is buggy, maybe because they're trying to integrate Google's AI. If you don't want to look like a fool, it's best if you just delete your post.

Comment ID #6847669556 03/08/2026 11:09 am

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