This headline is so messed up. AI is making searching easier and more convenient and reducing the amount of clicks (often to zero) you need before you get the information you want. For people searching the web for information that’s a clear improvement. If you make your money from SEO then it sucks but if the headline was “Is Google about to decimate the SEO/PPC industry?” Then we’d be reacting in an entirely different way I imagine.
When the websites that the AI search is sourcing information from cease to exist because they don’t get enough traffic, how will AI search continue to source information?
What kind of information are you talking about? Let’s be specific. The phone number for a garden center or how a rocket engine works? This won’t affect every search the same way. This is actually a fantastically complex question and we’ll only really see what happens when it does.
It’s really not. You seem to be insinuating they’ll take a nuanced approach and treat different types of websites differently, but there is no reason to believe that is the case, and it’s not what they’ve been doing thus far. Espousing that Google has a sustainable long term plan for the internet that we’re too stupid to understand just makes you look ridiculous tbh
You’ve misunderstood me (let’s just say “not deliberately” for a moment). What I’m saying is that regardless of what Google does in terms of long term plans or nuanced anything not all searches are equal. Neither you nor I can say at this point how this will shake out. Also, what have you eaten today? You know what you’re like when you don’t eat…
I understood you perfectly, made clear by the fact you’re doing it again. You’re trying to deflect from the obvious mechanics of this endeavor (let’s just say “not deliberately” for a moment) by saying it’s too nuanced and complicated for our tiny pea brains to understand even though it’s completely obvious when you use your brain for 5 seconds.
AI is making searching easier and more convenient and reducing the amount of clicks (often to zero) you need before you get the inaccurate information you didn’t want.
Totally agree with your sentiment. The web is changing. And most people hate change. That’s why we see everyone hating on AI right now.
In reality, LLMs are really useful and convenient. I use them every day. We and the internet just need to adapt to it. I don’t have a good solution for it now.
This headline is so messed up. AI is making searching easier and more convenient and reducing the amount of clicks (often to zero) you need before you get the information you want. For people searching the web for information that’s a clear improvement. If you make your money from SEO then it sucks but if the headline was “Is Google about to decimate the SEO/PPC industry?” Then we’d be reacting in an entirely different way I imagine.
Happy for the seo business to die. However tgat zero click aspect tgat will do damage in the long run
There’s no point building a website for no one going to look at. The ultimate end to that path is ai eating its own tail
When the websites that the AI search is sourcing information from cease to exist because they don’t get enough traffic, how will AI search continue to source information?
This isn’t a hard concept…
It might be harder than you think…
What kind of information are you talking about? Let’s be specific. The phone number for a garden center or how a rocket engine works? This won’t affect every search the same way. This is actually a fantastically complex question and we’ll only really see what happens when it does.
It’s really not. You seem to be insinuating they’ll take a nuanced approach and treat different types of websites differently, but there is no reason to believe that is the case, and it’s not what they’ve been doing thus far. Espousing that Google has a sustainable long term plan for the internet that we’re too stupid to understand just makes you look ridiculous tbh
You’ve misunderstood me (let’s just say “not deliberately” for a moment). What I’m saying is that regardless of what Google does in terms of long term plans or nuanced anything not all searches are equal. Neither you nor I can say at this point how this will shake out. Also, what have you eaten today? You know what you’re like when you don’t eat…
I understood you perfectly, made clear by the fact you’re doing it again. You’re trying to deflect from the obvious mechanics of this endeavor (let’s just say “not deliberately” for a moment) by saying it’s too nuanced and complicated for our tiny pea brains to understand even though it’s completely obvious when you use your brain for 5 seconds.
I give up, you win.
Ftfy
Totally agree with your sentiment. The web is changing. And most people hate change. That’s why we see everyone hating on AI right now.
In reality, LLMs are really useful and convenient. I use them every day. We and the internet just need to adapt to it. I don’t have a good solution for it now.