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by salomonk_mur 23 days ago
To be fair, the traffic you had was mostly routed by them as well. Google giveth, Google taketh away.
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ryanisnan 23 days ago
Callous take. You make it seem like only Google was giving here. If Google was routing users to OP's site, surely OP had something beneficial to give.
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atoav 23 days ago
No. OP made the content Google copied with AI to their landing page, which reduced the traffic.

But I forgot that they convinced you to accept AI as a magic "make copyright disappear"-technology.

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CalRobert 23 days ago
Had they been correctly punished for anticompetitive practices there would be other search engines with meaningful market share.
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jmusall 22 days ago
In my humble opinion it was balanced when Google gave traffic to sites and these sites gave good results for Google to show
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intended 22 days ago
Google giveth jack shit here.

Google users wanted to find that info. Google served its users.

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