AI crawlers made 23% of our bot traffic in the last 30 days. Google is not the only one crawling aggressively now.
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>Oh nvm. They're full-time clickbaiters... what else did I expect.
There is nothing clickbait about this article. I fail to understand why take such a hostile approach to something on the internet where you completely miss the point under contention - auto account bans via AI
We’ve long had a policy against using automation to generate low-quality or unoriginal content at scale with the goal of manipulating search rankings. This policy was originally designed to address instances of content being generated at scale where it was clear that automation was involved.
Today, scaled content creation methods are more sophisticated, and whether content is created purely through automation isn’t always as clear. To better address these techniques, we’re strengthening our policy to focus on this abusive behavior — producing content at scale to boost search ranking — whether automation, humans or a combination are involved. This will allow us to take action on more types of content with little to no value created at scale, like pages that pretend to have answers to popular searches but fail to deliver helpful content.
(1) https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-update-mar...
Business is booming. Not exactly dying as indicated here in the HN circles because obviously HN crowd is much further ahead in the curve. SEO is still the number one opted channel by most ecommerce stores because keywords like "red party dress" or "green shoes" are still immensely more valuable and bring ton of revenue every day.
Ofcourse, Google is trying hard to monetize every little real estate but still a ton of keywords don't have any advertisers at all. Optimizing for these has been the number#1 revenue maker in the past 3 years.
The other aspect of this the "paid ads" also immensely valuable to advertisers. We have people spending 3 million dollars a month on paid ads returning 8X ROAS. Google & FB are still the most lucrative channels for ecommerce.
Danny was a big critic of Google back in the days. What he doesn't realise is that Google has deployed the oldest trick in the book. They took the most prominent critic in the industry and made him into their spokesman. Effectively, leveraging a lot of goodwill he holds in the industry into their own.
I am not saying what Danny is saying is untrue or has malice. I am just saying that Google search has deteriorated immensely and is skewed to about 100 sites that dominate it competely. There is very little space for small business or genuine knowledgespeak unless you have a big budget to churn our content. Just look at Google's testimony in the recent antitrust case and you can see what Google says via the liasion team is opposite to how SEO actually works. Ex - Google using click data but constantly saying for over a decade they don't use the click data.
Honestly, given that I can use grel/clojure/python inside to clean up and mangle data seems to make it the swiss knife of data segmentation/cleanup.
Currently mangling a 4 GB file and working with api's that use existing data columns to provide output.. Its a great tool.
It helps you get access to someone's Google ads, Analytics, Tag manager, Search console, GMB and a few others in one click.
I get that the AI is going to be important in the next decade but Mozilla has shown that despite having a clear competitive advantage in something it cannot continue to grow. I don't mean to devalue what Mozilla is doing but its browser is completely ususable on my Linux Mint 20 with a high end graphics card. Compare that to chrome which works like a breeze.
Although I champion open source & privacy at my org - I cannot but for the sake of my own productivity use any Mozilla product despite repeated attempts every quarter to try if it works better now...
I simply don't get this line of debate or discussion at all? Granted that Twitter has a bigger size but so is TikTok and countless other companies like Reddit.
The author would have also saved a lot of costs if he had enrolled in one of those startup programs.
Some of the ones that are great include - YC's own startup program where you get links to deals - Segments startup program.
Both of these give access to $5K in aws credit last time I checked. Plus it has free usage for twilio and stripe. First 5K ins tripe billing is free.
What are your plans on developing this further? Who do you see as a potential user of this product? How does the product intend on making money and remaining profitable?
If an innocent man goes to jail, the penalties should be so profound that it hurts. They should be levied a billion dollar penalty and I would say even that would be generous.
I am not sure how old the author is but I find these donations incredibly generous and sometimes fail to comrehend such generosity. Sure you got an education at this place but was it worth 200K ? I am not trying to look at the action of the author in any disdain but am genuinely amazed at how such a young person will have such tremendous generosity.
Fail to understand fedora's motives here other than censorship