[stego-tech]

Good, because this “next generation search” doesn’t cite sources, invents falsehoods, steals content, and doesn’t direct traffic to the site in question, which was the whole point of search engines in the first place.

The fact LLM companies constantly keep getting dinged for ignoring every barrier we throw up to stop their scraping short of something like Anubis shows what their real goal is: theft, monopolization, and reality authoring.

[cactusplant7374]

If your website is included in next gen search and the user asks for a source, then your website as a source will be included.

[roywiggins]

Nobody clicks through, to a first approximation.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-us...

[sshine]

> this “next generation search” doesn’t cite sources

The training done on the content does not provide citable references with current models. The agentic search and summary done post-training does.

A lot of the heavy traffic is for training, though, because AI companies are in competition for large amounts of training data.

[BoorishBears]

It cites sources and while it generates less traffic, that traffic converts significantly better