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google might be planning to replace our websites entirely
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Yeah this would maybe be possible for very basic brochure sites but not something with high functionality. There is a lot of business sites that this simply wouldn’t work for. Too much business logic built into them.
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So…they just patented compuserve?
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so basically google wants to become amazon? build the storefront using your content, own the customer relationship, and charge you for access to your own audience. we’ve seen this exact playbook before
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Interesting to think about on many levels. The notion that laws would protect the individual/small businesses doesn’t have the same weight as it did a few years ago.
Can Google own content built off of your content? No, right? But then, what has AI been built on?
Feels like if the owning class wants anything possessed by the creating class, they just take it now.
I feel like I grew up being told this is the way it is outside our US boarders, but that the USA is righteous and would never…
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100% sounds like a Google move… we get zero traffic??
If you picture AI as a monster threatening web developers’ bread, then I pity android devs!
Those guys have a bigger, greedy monster to deal with, one they can’t run away from… GOOGLE!
And now… we ain’t safe either?
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I don’t think this is true, but if so – good luck with the EU …
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You would assume they would ask people to opt in to this.
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Google has already taken our websites. I had several travel blogs and also some news sites. Now Google only indexes official news portals. So if I am not an official news portal, if I don’t have a big name, they don’t even index me. It doesn’t matter that I present news with my own opinion. It doesn’t matter at all. I’m just not in the index. I’m not even talking about traffic, but about being indexed at all.
Small niche websites – same thing. I’m even okay competing with AI. But Google is deindexing my sites. On many of these sites, I had unique posts, written from a unique point of view. You can’t even find anything like them on the internet. But Google still removes them from the index. Every week, around 40 of my posts disappear from the index.
And then, cynically, AdSense sends me emails teaching me how to earn more, saying I need to add more ads, more banners everywhere. So I should cover everything with ads. What’s the point if nobody even visits my site?
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I doubt the implication you and this article appear to speculate would actually happen. Since it deals with billing and the use of ai which can give false information, it will likely be an opt-in type service if they do decide to implement it. Even more so since they put a patent on it and probably expect no one to do something too similar. If so they would be way too many businesses who would go to Bing or any other option for site placement instead of paying for it based on clicks. Would probably be a legal issue on top of that as it would force small businesses out of their search engine of a paid ai switcheroo was required for placement.
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99% of websites do not pay Google.
The moment Google forces that, people will de-index themselves from Google.
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