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Comment by jack_pp | Hacker News Reader

Yes, of course you want people to know about your website. Just saying if your website is regarded as useful/original enough by Google to cite as a source.. people will visit your website to check sources. Might be a small amount of people but still.

At this point complaining about the current/future state of search is just gonna make you into a grumpy old man. As always, accept the situation since you can not do anything to change it... and adapt

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If such people exist, they are far, far fewer in numbers than they were in the past. I also don't accept that nothing can be done about this situation. Inevitability and helplessness are beloved tools of AI hypesters (and others) but there's little evidence to support it.

What evidence is there that you or me can steer Google off this path?

Can you stop wars around the world? Can you make crypto dissapear? There are a multitude of global trends that 99.9999% of people are helpless about

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/12/key-findi... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19368623.2024.2...

Collective action and public opinion can steer Google off this path. Collective action can shape public policy that can stop or prevent wars. The only thing that enforces helplessness is apathy. And AI is pissing people out of apathy.

When was the last time the US government or Congress cared about public opinion about a war? Besides the lies they tell to get elected.

There are other, less dysfunctional governments.

Any that care about public opinion when starting wars?

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