🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

OK, stop and read this article. Very important for anyone in Search -> A profile of veteran Googler Liz Reid, who became Head of Search in March 2024 and rolled out major updates like AI Overviews, as Google competes with ChatGPT "Supporting publishers has always been

Google Search ruled the web for 25 years. Can it evolve for the AI era? On this episode of the Big Take podcast, Davey Alba and Julia Love take us inside Google's high-risk revamp of its core product trib.al/uycr7lk

Last year, we sounded the alarm about Google's latest wave of algorithm updates killing small websites like HouseFresh. This week, we talked to Bloomberg about the negative impact Google's new AI search results are having on what's left of the independent web 👇

Google Al Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling 'Betrayed' bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Google says AI Overviews drive more traffic to publishers. But it has never shared data to back up that claim. Davey Alba & I spoke to 25 creators who painted a very different picture. Several have gone out of business. One is on food stamps. Our latest: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

AI is killing creative professions, the open web, & the environment while being wrong most of the time. I went to Google to talk about the destruction of small publishers. They said they would do better, but it’s gotten worse. Bloomberg told our story. bloom.bg/43Jmzk3

really great article by Davey Alba and julia love

“The AI-generated answers have caused traffic to independent sites to plummet […] That’s disrupting a delicate symbiotic relationship that’s existed for years: if businesses create good content, Google sends them traffic.” ~ Davey Alba Julia Love 🔗 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

i truly admire paris martineau's and Julia Black's reporting so much and hope some smart editor snaps both of them up ASAP

Source: Alphabet's Q1 profit was boosted by $8B in unrealized gains from an investment in SpaceX; Alphabet has been a major SpaceX investor since at least 2015 (Davey Alba / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250424/p43#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

US v. Google: Google says its controls for publishers to opt out of AI training only cover work by Google DeepMind, not training by its other units for search (Davey Alba / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250502/p30#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

The top deepfake porn site is apparently shutting down, via 404 Media. A critical service provider terminated service. Bloomberg Technology previously reported that Cloudflare, Amazon and GitHub have have provided services for many of the top 20 deepfake sites. 404media.co/mr-deepfakes-t…

Bloomberg Davey Alba just reported on this exhibit two weeks after it posted which is great and a reminder to everyone there is a lot of important evidence still being analyzed in Google and Facebook court cases. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

And its a wrap on the DOJ's Google search antitrust case, as closing arguments end. Next stop likely August with a ruling that could force the company to sell Chrome, license critical data to rivals, and bar $20b + in annual payments to Apple w Davey Alba bloomberg.com/news/articles/…