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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. <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 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

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

If it is the UK what will they do go to Google Ireland to find the most loosing sites or is this news sites. What tump is doing right now is risky and what are Europe going to do if he takes over Greenland?

Comment ID #6822196282 01/11/2026 04:47 pm

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

It might help to mention the country name you are talking about. Not everyone here is from the United States, if that's even the country you are referring to.

Comment ID #6822178999 01/11/2026 04:08 pm

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

Trump did flip sides about what he said during his campaign about reigning in big tech. For what unregulated AI is now going to do, he will be paying a big economic price down the road & likely soon. But you have a selective & short term memory like Biden if you already forgot how things were under his 1 term, including Google getting to this level of bad during that time. It took Elon buying twitter just to restore a close to fair balance of free speech on social media again. Everything would be censored to be a reddit and bluesky hivemind by now if that had not happened including Trump winning again, like him or not.

Comment ID #6822175901 01/11/2026 04:03 pm

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

You are in the UK?

Comment ID #6822166775 01/11/2026 03:42 pm

Dark Red Owl commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

I received unofficial information that after January 20th there will be some change. There are suspicions of political interference in determining the winning and losing sites in the last update and market distortion in our country, our sources claim. The information comes from high-level people at least in our country. I don't know if it's a conspiracy, but it's interesting to see if there will be a shift after January 20th. The fact is that the person who coordinates Google in our country is close to the ruling party.

Comment ID #6822117620 01/11/2026 01:52 pm

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

What is DS's new title at Google anyway? Does he even have one or did they just give him an office, in a padded room, where they can peak in at him every now and then?

Comment ID #6822084712 01/11/2026 12:42 pm

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

Yep, I agree. I couldn't read the webpage because its blocked because they couldn't be bothered looking at the GDRP legislation.

Comment ID #6822073354 01/11/2026 12:18 pm

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

IMO all politicians are corrupt, so they will never enact laws that circumvent their ability to remain in power and abuse that power. I doubt politicians would do anything to term limit judges either because doing so would indicate their positions should also be subject to term limits. In my state we have term limits on state offices. However, these term limits allow politicians to run for that office again, after their term limit ends, providing they have been out of that office for 4+ years. That's why we end up with politicians playing musical chairs. Look at the one below. A term limited state representative is running for her son's senate seat. He's term limited too and is running for his mothers seat. You can't make this shit up it's that insane. What's even more insane is they both will probably get elected, thanks to voters who are dumber than a box of rocks. <b>WESTSHORE:: Manning to seek son’s seat in state Senate</b> - <a href="https://www.westlifenews.com/news/westshore-manning-to-seek-son-s-seat-in-state-senate/article_168a74e0-fb19-45f0-9116-c86c4a3a8964.html">https://www.westlifenews.com/news/westshore-manning-to-seek-son-s-seat-in-state-senate/article_168a74e0-fb19-45f0-9116-c86c4a3a8964.html</a> <blockquote>Nearly two months after Ohio Sen. Nathan Manning, the North Ridgeville Republican, announced he is a candidate running for his mother’s seat, Ohio House District 52, Rep. Gayle Manning has announced that she is running for the Ohio Senate District 13 seat currently held by her son, Sen. Nathan Manning.</blockquote>

Comment ID #6822054860 01/11/2026 11:40 am

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

<blockquote>MisInformation and DisInformation is not free speech when it is wrong. </blockquote>Nga you can't believe in free speech and expect an unbiased arbitrator of what is considered misinformation and disinformation at the same time. It was already tried anyways under Biden and we all saw how that went nga. <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/27/business/mark-zuckerberg-meta-biden-censor-covid-2021">https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/27/business/mark-zuckerberg-meta-biden-censor-covid-2021 </a> <a href="https://x.com/adamcarolla/status/2010164775045738693">https://x.com/adamcarolla/status/2010164775045738693</a>

Comment ID #6822028406 01/11/2026 10:42 am

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

I lost count how many adverts i saw in five minutes I watched. Three at the start and then two groups of two. Sure, Youtube needs to make money but overkill. I agreed with a lot of what he said, I know I will be downvoted by some people just because I agreed with a Democrat, TW & FG being two people who'll downvote me guaranteed. MisInformation and DisInformation is not free speech when it is wrong. I do like community notes though and if we can't ban M & D, at least we can challenge it. The 18 year limits is a good idea and it'll affect liberals and conservatives alike. He is right that there is oligarch is taking over, just look at all the AI friendly laws coming out. When an AI law was voted 99-1 against, they just persuaded Trumpty to create a XO to get round it. Trumpty tried twice about AI and both times he lost but I'm sure the AI Brigade spoke to Trumpty and persuaded him to win the AI Race, you have to do it. AI Laws are needed but everyone is going in the opposite direction to give them a free reign and its none about the safety and security that AI poses. US maybe growing in economy but its not taking everyone with them, AI replacing jobs and destroying businesses. The rich maybe driving the economy but everyone needs to go up too.

Comment ID #6822018318 01/11/2026 10:18 am

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

When the deals end, these platforms (Reddit as well), will have nothing to negotiate with since they have been carved out to the core by Google - leaving them with no value. Google will have all the power to set the terms of any new deals or simply walk away to allow those platforms to collapse. I hate to admit it, but Geriatric Joe was right about one thing in his farewell address. Big tech oligarchs and their Republicrat allies in DC are accumulating a concentration of power. <a href="https://youtu.be/T8vmhmilluM?si=npV37dTJcsNWelXq&t=444">https://youtu.be/T8vmhmilluM?si=npV37dTJcsNWelXq&t=444</a>

Comment ID #6821995453 01/11/2026 09:21 am

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

I have, and always will, use Stack Overflow as my first call. StackOverflow doesn't care; they've got a deal with Google to train on the data. The question is, though, how long is the deal for? What happens at the end of the deal, if there is an end? Thank you very much for your data, and now F. Off.

Comment ID #6821939693 01/11/2026 05:42 am

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

yep... worse than yesterday

Comment ID #6821937148 01/11/2026 05:29 am

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

worse than yesterday...

Comment ID #6821937119 01/11/2026 05:29 am

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

Stack overflow has lost 98% of traffic to AI normally 200k questions per month but in Dec 2025 there was just 3,862. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/60cba77482386a002a1448abd974c2e5b79b947540e328803a12b51f44c784f2.png

Comment ID #6821926710 01/11/2026 04:35 am

2026 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Bad Day everyday

Comment ID #6821909221 01/11/2026 02:46 am

clone21 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

because it is crazy

Comment ID #6821858151 01/10/2026 10:16 pm

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

Bump on this, curious

Comment ID #6821736186 01/10/2026 04:16 pm

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

new site started 3 mnths ago, algo is drunk I think.. i mean WHY it fucking grows, now I never left this shit! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b28f89fe118e3de41ffafa2395f8f022002a133134b80d241c3ab4d9506a020c.png

Comment ID #6821655605 01/10/2026 01:18 pm

Ted (or Big T) commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Yes, total shit today. Traffic is dropped.

Comment ID #6821621294 01/10/2026 12:07 pm

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

If what you're doing helps to put food on the table and pay the bills, it may be a good short-term measure taken while looking for the next off-ramp to take. Because the Poop Technocracy has damaged the web so badly, it will surely die by suffocating under a huge pile of Googleshit. Only option I see now is to vote against the Republicrats, to remove them from power, since they have aligned themselves with the Technocrats to expedite the destruction of small businesses.

Comment ID #6821612768 01/10/2026 11:49 am

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

Seems each day Google is a different level of shitty, making it very hard to gauge. Our sales are coming from other sources because Google is feeding their users China junk. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e6116b9d6644d1a6ac13f0cc47660ca30df115763b8100685f2a8496187476b0.jpg

Comment ID #6821606628 01/10/2026 11:37 am

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

Chrome probably freezes because it's sending data back home to Google. Best option is to not use Chrome, or any of Google's spyware products/services, because Google weaponizes that data to use against publishers and to train their AI.

Comment ID #6821599927 01/10/2026 11:22 am

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

Yep! Seeing the same.

Comment ID #6821598384 01/10/2026 11:19 am

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