Just spent three hours doing intensive research using google.com and realised I didn’t click on organic search or ads once.

[ggmopa]

And speaking as a former search enthusiast just a month ago. It was a combination of Google AI results and forum discussion, especially reddit, while scarcely acknowledging my behaviour - felt I just had no time for ‘nonsense’

During my search I came across this through a Reddit link - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html

Very timely, huh? I think a better way of putting it though, is: ‘Google AI is burying independent SEO professionals’. Usually take article like this with a pinch of salt but I think they are quite on the mark with this one.

Thoughts?

 

[Skyrocket]

Google is killing bot us and them. No one is clicking ads anymore

 

[Starblazer]

Google's motto is clear since the beginning. They want to keep the visitors on their site as long as they can. They don't want visitors to leave the search results page. Earlier, they implemented calculations, formulas, biodata, reviews/ratings, FAQs, etc. Now with AI, they can directly answer the queries. Most people want instant answers, so Google is delivering results on search engine itself. When webmasters stop creating content or block their crawlers and start using alternatives, then Google's monopoly will abruptly end. I guess with enough data, AI assistants can replace Google soon.

 

[Venusaur]

It seems in the future, instead of paying for clicks on ads, we will be paying to be featured by AIs.

People ask ''hey what's the best trading bot?'' and then it replies a top 5 list, if you want to be mentioned without building authority enough, just a newly-created website, pay for it

maybe paying more you can even avoid the competition, just a straightforward answer promoting your tool - ''the best trading bot is X because bla bla bla''

 

[Crazy Lucifer]

It seems in the future, instead of paying for clicks on ads, we will be paying to be featured by AIs.

People ask ''hey what's the best trading bot?'' and then it replies a top 5 list, if you want to be mentioned without building authority enough, just a newly-created website, pay for it

maybe paying more you can even avoid the competition, just a straightforward answer promoting your tool - ''the best trading bot is X because bla bla bla''

That would be weird but given what is happening these days, all things are possible.

 

[29dogs]

Now that you mention it I keep using the ai results and not clicking anything too!

 

[ggmopa]

When webmasters stop creating content or block their crawlers and start using alternatives, then Google's monopoly will abruptly end. I guess with enough data, AI assistants can replace Google soon.

It’s not just the hosts though from what I can tell but also CDN providers. When I was in college I coded a search engine for a cs project and what I found was that it was nigh impossible spidering sites that had cf ddos protection enabled. But Google, Bing and even Baidu had no problem spidering the sites with the same protections. Baidu, along with Google and Microsoft have also been long time sponsors of cf and have donated a tonne of money to them. Coincidence?

 

[t2van]

And speaking as a former search enthusiast just a month ago. It was a combination of Google AI results and forum discussion, especially reddit, while scarcely acknowledging my behaviour - felt I just had no time for ‘nonsense’

During my search I came across this through a Reddit link - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html

Very timely, huh? I think a better way of putting it though, is: ‘Google AI is burying independent SEO professionals’. Usually take article like this with a pinch of salt but I think they are quite on the mark with this one.

Thoughts?

Not clicked the link yet to comment fully. Even when the ai has answered my question I still scroll to the serps and click

I think it's because I don't fully trust it*

Google's motto is clear since the beginning. They want to keep the visitors on their site as long as they can. They don't want visitors to leave the search results page. Earlier, they implemented calculations, formulas, biodata, reviews/ratings, FAQs, etc. Now with AI, they can directly answer the queries. Most people want instant answers, so Google is delivering results on search engine itself. When webmasters stop creating content or block their crawlers and start using alternatives, then Google's monopoly will abruptly end. I guess with enough data, AI assistants can replace Google soon.

Think Google is already stressing about people going straight to gpt to answer stuff anyway.

It seems in the future, instead of paying for clicks on ads, we will be paying to be featured by AIs.

People ask ''hey what's the best trading bot?'' and then it replies a top 5 list, if you want to be mentioned without building authority enough, just a newly-created website, pay for it

maybe paying more you can even avoid the competition, just a straightforward answer promoting your tool - ''the best trading bot is X because bla bla bla''

Well to this.

If the ai answer is infulanced by ad spend it might not always be the best answer, because it would mean any all type of search queries the user enters can all be manipulated.

Yeah this still goes on with serps * which comes back to earlier mentioned bit.

Answers or link references are based on top 10 or maybe even 15 organic results anyway so there is a little bit of manipulation without paying.


For me I think it comes down to what you ask and what your looking for. News, blog sites, journal type sites should all be worried I think.

I though ai would kill me but my click, impressions and traffic is actually growing...