Yes, Google could destroy the best of the Internet
In an apparently leaked recording of an internal meeting now making the
rounds, their CEO is saying "users don't want blue links", they just
want answers.
See:
https://gizmodo.com/reddit-blackout-made-google-worse-1850580546#:~:text=Google%20CEO%20Sundar%20Pichai%20claimed,push%20more%20of%20that%20content.
But where does Google get the data to formulate those Generative AI
answers?
MAINLY FROM WEBSITES! Websites that have freely permitted Google to
scan their sites in exchange for the links and views and visitors who
click those links. That's the bargain.
Google is now pushing to end that bargain. They want to take the
data from sites and effectively give nothing in return -- unless perhaps
you pay for ads, assuming you have a site that's actually selling something.
But even purely informational sites could be bled dry by Google's new
approach. Why should anyone bother to visit the sites if Google just
grabbed the data and bundled it up into an answer? It doesn't even
matter if Google provides source links -- hardly anyone will bother to
click them.
Google could very easily kill the goose that laid the golden eggs,
the best of the Internet itself.
You can't imagine how much it disturbs me and how sad it makes me
to write this. -L
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--Lauren--
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