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This is a nothingburger, IMO. I think what this article is implying is that “Google is hiring for AI overviews, therefore it’s about to ruin SEO even more.”
Google has been hiring ML/AI engineers for 10+ years to improve the quality of search results, snippets, and now AI overviews.
It’s obvious Google is going to continue improving its AI overviews, and one job posting for a mid-level engineer at a company with 200k employees isn’t a seismic shift in how they view the future of SEO or search results.
Google regularly hires highly-skilled engineers for products that may or may not work long-term (Chromecast, Google Podcasts, Domains, Jamboard, etc.)
