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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by kccqzy on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @09:40PM (#44243397)
That's impossible unless the web reverted back to 2010, when walled gardens weren't prevalent, making your own blog was common, doable and often done by those without programming experience, forums were alive and well, and people wanted to share things on the web rather than group chats.
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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by o11c on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @11:13PM (#44243861)
It's perfectly possible if they start downranking sites full of ads.

But an ad company will never do that.

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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by voxl on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @09:47PM (#44243441)
There are plenty of blogs, plenty of obvious low quality spam to block, plenty of features to enable allowlist and blocklists. To think for a second that the Google search experience couldn't be made significantly better at the snap of a finger by Google is to live in a fantasy world.
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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by ljlolel on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @10:31PM (#44243653)
All that means less revenue, that’s a fantasy
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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by voxl on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @11:16PM (#44243883)
Sure, sure, except for this minor issue that the argument I was responding to didn't mention revenue, they talked about the state of the internet. So why again are you responding to my counter with a straw man?
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