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Re:As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to ... by AstroBen on Thursday June 26, 2025 @02:16PM (#44389872)
Yeah and then what happens in 2026 onwards? No one's going to put in the work to create high quality original content when they can't monetize it..
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Re:As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to ... by beej71 on Thursday June 26, 2025 @03:56PM (#44390697)
A few of us will. :) I give my stuff away for free with no ads. Maybe the web will get small again.
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Re:As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to ... by xboxnolifes on Thursday June 26, 2025 @08:32PM (#44392801)
It will be small again. Less high quality content in the future is the current path.
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Re:As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to ... by beej71 on Friday June 27, 2025 @05:28PM (#44400407)
I think there will be less high quality content, but a greater density of high quality content.
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Re:As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to ... by Ferret7446 on Friday June 27, 2025 @05:26AM (#44395251)
Why not? If high quality original content is valuable, then people will pay for it. If no one will pay for it, then is it really valuable?

And in any case, your hypothesis is disproved by the existence of free software, to say nothing of amateurs [1] in all fields. Clearly, people are willing to make valuable things without monetary incentive.

[1]: a person who engages in a pursuit on an unpaid rather than a professional basis.

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