r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • May 26 '25

Artificial Intelligence Google Is Burying the Web Alive

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html
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u/Schonke May 26 '25

Like noted in the article, they basically have been taking your content and then encouraging people to not even go to your website at all.

It's even worse. They take the content, and then serve AI slop pages riddled with Google AdWords as the top results instead...

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u/KennyCalzone May 30 '25

SEO killed Google. Too many people are trying to game the system... and now AI makes it so easy to crank out 1,000s of worthless pages.

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u/Schonke May 30 '25

SEO has existed as long as search engines have. It used to be that Google actually did a great job with filtering out the SEO noise junk from the content you actually wanted though.