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Vásziszdász commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

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Comment ID #6816649311 12/30/2025 07:30 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

It was indeed the Grok which was also used to create that pic of Crime Magazine with Spamdar's mug on it.

Comment ID #6816648981 12/30/2025 07:29 pm

Helga commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

Thank you Sam. I will share your warm regards with Robert.

Comment ID #6816645391 12/30/2025 07:16 pm

Helga commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

Oh my goodness! Thank you dear!

Comment ID #6816644389 12/30/2025 07:12 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

LOL I'm already loving ya Helga!

Comment ID #6816636228 12/30/2025 06:44 pm

Sam commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

Hello bobby

Comment ID #6816570101 12/30/2025 03:40 pm

Helga commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

Thank you sir. If you can be so kind. Who can I phone at Google to have them put a website to the top so it is easier for people to find? This is for my grandson Robert's website.

Comment ID #6816561894 12/30/2025 03:20 pm

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

Greg Finn, the person in the video who Barry is interviewing. Pretty sure it this geezer... <a href="https://cypressnorth.com/about/team/greg-finn/">https://cypressnorth.com/about/team/greg-finn/</a>

Comment ID #6816547506 12/30/2025 02:47 pm

Helga commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

Excuse me. Who is this Greg?

Comment ID #6816545187 12/30/2025 02:41 pm

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

Probably a bug, they'll get it fixed.

Comment ID #6816541977 12/30/2025 02:34 pm

Sam commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

I did some searches after watching this on food websites, looks like AI overviews are gone for me so they must be listening.

Comment ID #6816528968 12/30/2025 02:04 pm

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

Ok, thanks for clearing that up. I think google-extended is a ranking signal despite their denials because I had it blocked and believe my ranking has gone down as a result.

Comment ID #6816524788 12/30/2025 01:54 pm

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

Interesting you say he's paid for by big insurance, he's blocking them from using AI in claims, you'd think he'd be all for that. I'm only going by narrow points of information that IK read and how he's the only politician who is in any form against AI. He might very well do a JD, the minute he gets power, he flips. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/27/we-have-to-reject-that-with-every-fiber-of-our-being-desantis-emerges-as-a-chief-ai-skeptic-00704333">https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/27/we-have-to-reject-that-with-every-fiber-of-our-being-desantis-emerges-as-a-chief-ai-skeptic-00704333</a>

Comment ID #6816515412 12/30/2025 01:33 pm

FokGoogle commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

Desantisy is a globalist. He is funded by the Club for Growth and people like Billionaire Citadel Investment hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin, his top donor. Griffin's only goal is to get the republican party back in alignment with the multinational corporations. I live in Florida and I see how Desantis is bought and paid for by big insurance. He's a wolf in sheep's clothing, so cut the BS.

Comment ID #6816510457 12/30/2025 01:22 pm

Mark commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

Let's start with the homepage. Tonnes of content thats clearly just seo content, loads of thin affil links to gambling companies. I can't find any good content at all, how about we play this game the other way around and you show me a useful page?

Comment ID #6816510426 12/30/2025 01:21 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

Google Extended only blocks Google's Vertex AI stuff, but since AI Mode and AI Search use search data, to block those you need to block Googlebot specifically, which blocks you from search too See <a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/google-extended-seo-36865.html">https://www.seroundtable.com/google-extended-seo-36865.html</a> And <a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/google-options-publishers-ai-controls-40462.html">https://www.seroundtable.com/google-options-publishers-ai-controls-40462.html</a>

Comment ID #6816506625 12/30/2025 01:12 pm

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38psRtIkJrI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38psRtIkJrI</a> Greg says you can't opt out of AI Overviews, I thought Google-extended was supposed to allow you to do. How come you don't advertise as you used about your videos on your site anymore?

Comment ID #6816505803 12/30/2025 01:10 pm

SEOwhat commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

Thankfully, there are no significant shifts outside of the typical peaks and valleys I see during updates. As of today, we are still relatively flat across our 30,000 pages with a slight uptick in visitation, which is normal for us during this time of year.

Comment ID #6816502500 12/30/2025 01:02 pm

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

You get over 2.5 million page views... Woah... No, not jealous.. No, No, No

Comment ID #6816485769 12/30/2025 12:24 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

Yea, I pay for Disqus Pro (Plus??)

Comment ID #6816475208 12/30/2025 11:59 am

DramaShout143 commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

@rustybrick:disqus sir. i just want to ask if this site uses disqus premiun. RE: GOOGLE DEC 2025 UPDATE some of my long gone keywords were resurrected, while some newer indexed keywords disappeared. I do not know Google's moves anymore.

Comment ID #6816473929 12/30/2025 11:56 am

John A. User commented on Vlog Episode #221: Glenn Gabe On Bing Chat & Google Bard & AI Generated Content

Not finding links on CHATGPT nowadays

Comment ID #6816470756 12/30/2025 11:49 am

Zolux commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

My traffic slightly increased but revenue is down AdSense RPM $2.... Fingers crossed for January...

Comment ID #6816468319 12/30/2025 11:43 am

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

Yes, a smokescreen but because the overall rather than individual parts are making phenomenal amounts of money, they can afford to ignore the lesser parts. Investors are only interested in the whole amount, not each individual part. I bet they don't go saying why is this part losing, so long as overall is on the way up, they don't mind. Yep, useless investors I agree because if they were, we'd be seeing something different.

Comment ID #6816462710 12/30/2025 11:30 am

Barry Schwartz commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

found it, approved it. I did not delete it.

Comment ID #6816462427 12/30/2025 11:30 am

Sam commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

I think there is accountancy smokescreen they were making lot's due to the way they changed that sponsorship links but now advertisors are waking up and cutting budgets. They are not selling their products so they move elsewhere. There is too much AI slop and the AI auction thing Google forced on them is making them loose dollars. It will be interesting on how long this who crazy thing will go on for,

Comment ID #6816458749 12/30/2025 11:21 am

Dawn Anderson commented on The Industry Mourns The Loss Of Andy Drinkwater - Experience SEO & Friend To The Search Industry

What a lovely person Andy was. I have known him for many years since the early days of SEMRushChat and he was just so friendly and incredibly talented. This is very sad news indeed. RIP Andy. You most definitely will not be forgotten x

Comment ID #6816456963 12/30/2025 11:17 am

MrSEO commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

My comments are delteted again probably becuase I called Artifical intelligence by it's most common used name

Comment ID #6816455325 12/30/2025 11:13 am

Sam commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

You're absolutely right about the "too big to fail" stuff and how the AI as national-security narrative will be used to justify intervention. But I think you're underestimating how quickly the financial crisis forces action, we're talking 2026-2027, not 2029. Google is spending $91-93B in CapEx this year with a "significant increase" planned for 2026, likely $110-120B. Meanwhile their ad revenue growth already missed expectations in Q4 2024 at 10.6%. If I am right about the February earnings revealing serious drops, Google's free cash flow goes from positive $38B per year to negative $35-40B per year. They literally cannot wait until 2029, they'd burn through $140-160B and hit crisis mode by late 2027. Trump won't intervene to save Google, they'll intervene to save tax revenue. Google pays $27.7B in taxes annually, so a 40% revenue collapse means an $11B tax loss from Google alone. Add the collapsing publisher ecosystem and you're looking at a $60-115B annual tax revenue hole. The Treasury Department doesn't care about publishers or Google, they care about that massive hole in tax. That forces action by mid-2026, not 2029. The EU just proved this timeline by opening a formal investigation on December 9, 2025, with fines up to 10% of Google's global revenue. They're not waiting for 2029, and if Europe starts collecting $30B in fines while the US tax base collapses, American regulators will face pressure to act even under the trump administration. Publishers are already stuffed, traffic dropped from 51% to 27% between 2023-2025. If publishers collapse completely, Google has nothing to train their AI on. No publishers mean model collapse and AI that gets dumber over time. They need the content pipeline alive, which forces them to scale back AI Overviews whether they want to or not. Semrush data shows AI Overviews dropped from 24.98% of queries in July 2025 to 15.69% in November 2025. That's a 37% reduction in just four months. They didn't talk about it, they just quietly did it back because the data was bad man. so, my prediction "March 2026 rollback" is actually describing the continuation of what already started in Q3 2025. You're right that hundreds of billions in tax dollars will go to AI companies, but it won't be a blank check. It'll be structured as Pentagon contracts sold as "China competition" with strings attached, like, restore some version of the advertising ecosystem, scale back the most destructive AI stuff, keep publishers alive enough to produce training data. The Trump administration might be Big Tech friendly, but they're more friendly to not having a $100B budget hole. When Q1 2026 earnings show advertising revenue dropping and Treasury projects a $60-115B annual tax shortfall, someone's going to tell Google to fix it or face the music. Based on the annual burn rate, they've got up to 24 months before crisis mode hits. That means mid-2026 to early 2027, not 2029. You're right about all the things around it. But you’re just too pessimistic about the timeline. The money runs out way before 2029.

Comment ID #6816455306 12/30/2025 11:13 am

MrSEO commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

The site you posted is pure AI slop with spammy keywords galore.. I counted 288 of the main keyword all on one page stuffed with more genric ai slop. Google will no longer rank those kind of sites and prefers hacked and repurposed domains also pushing ai slop instead.,

Comment ID #6816450345 12/30/2025 11:01 am

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