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Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

I really hope there is not a day when we are on here saying we are now zero and AI mode takes over and that is it folks close the curtain on our websites and close them down. A chatbot internet is not something I want I will just not go on it, I think the terrible search engine now means people just can't find our sites. My direct traffic has sky rocketed and all my terms in search has my website name in.

Comment ID #6806928002 12/08/2025 08:55 pm

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

Criminal, and you guys voted for this person.Unreal.

Comment ID #6806927211 12/08/2025 08:53 pm

Sensei commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

That seriously has to be their sole purpose at this point. They eliminated Danny boy's lie-aison position since he at least pretended to fake empathy, so now the main 2 Google gimps filling that role are JM and Robby Stein who get off on showing zero empathy when gaslighting. Where did Danny boy end up at anyways? Did he fail upwards to become JM's personal jizz mopper, or did he suffer the fate of Matt Cutt's and is exilied on an island someplace never to be heard from again?

Comment ID #6806914476 12/08/2025 08:10 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

Looks like the Trump is going to issue an AI executive order soon. He calls it "One Rule" and that rule doesn't give a shit about anyone's intellectual property or consumer safety. Just can't trust the Trump from using his office to enrich himself or his family, like the hostile takeover bid for WB which includes his son-in-law's private equity firm. Just too much shady shit going on with the orange. <b>‘ONE RULE’: Trump says he’ll sign an executive order blocking state AI laws despite bipartisan pushback</b> - <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/one-rule-trump-says-hell-sign-an-executive-order-blocking-state-ai-laws-despite-bipartisan-pushback/">https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/one-rule-trump-says-hell-sign-an-executive-order-blocking-state-ai-laws-despite-bipartisan-pushback/</a> <blockquote>“Christmas comes early for AI billionaires who keep getting exactly what they want from The White House: a massive handout that makes it that much easier for them to make massive profits for themselves with exactly zero consideration for the risks to our kids, to our safety, and to our jobs,” New York Assembly member Alex Bores, who sponsored New York’s RAISE Act, said in a statement. </blockquote>

Comment ID #6806900231 12/08/2025 07:18 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

I wonder how Google can justify keeping these people on the payroll if their AI is so great? Maybe it's because their sole purpose is to gaslight the shit out of us?

Comment ID #6806883572 12/08/2025 06:20 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

True, they sent billions of clicks out, all to Youtube and Reddit..

Comment ID #6806836181 12/08/2025 04:16 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Bing Testing Expandable Favicon On Mouse Over

Chrome Mac

Comment ID #6806811388 12/08/2025 03:24 pm

Mark Ting commented on Bing Testing Expandable Favicon On Mouse Over

browser? Never mind. I was using Chrome, but it works now for me too. Ghost in the machine, I happened to catch at the wrong time!

Comment ID #6806811151 12/08/2025 03:23 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Bing Testing Expandable Favicon On Mouse Over

worked fine for me...

Comment ID #6806809784 12/08/2025 03:20 pm

SEOwhat commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

Heated Volatility is nothing but the new normal. If anyone is consistently paying attention to their tracked tags or keyword sets, they know this: the jumps have been peaks and valleys, not staircases. It appears to be either all-in or all-out. The EEAT model has shit the bed, and the clearly defined principles of what constitutes "good content" still seem to be based on FAQs and remedial clarity.

Comment ID #6806778775 12/08/2025 02:13 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

<blockquote>Starting to feel like "Helpful Content" really just meant "Help Yourself to User Content"</blockquote>Consider yourself lucky if you're just starting to feel that way. I've felt this way ever since AI Overviews launched in the USA last year. As far as quality goes, Google bases quality on the money they rake in and nothing more.

Comment ID #6806773180 12/08/2025 02:01 pm

Sensei commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

Speaking of gaslighting: <a href="https://x.com/Goog_Enough/status/1998014951114600525">https://x.com/Goog_Enough/status/1998014951114600525</a>

Comment ID #6806765081 12/08/2025 01:43 pm

John A. User commented on Business Insider To Use Custom GPT AI To Publish Quick News Stories

Agree with what you're saying. I'm thinking its a test to see if they can then get rid of humans and go fully AI.

Comment ID #6806736270 12/08/2025 12:39 pm

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

they cannot even explain it clearly, it's the biggest trick (gaslight one)

Comment ID #6806736028 12/08/2025 12:39 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

Quality is what they can't make money from, so they send "quality" visitors to people's websites now.

Comment ID #6806735666 12/08/2025 12:38 pm

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

I know I should be grateful because I’ve seen some competitors basically hit zero, but my 90% drop is so big it doesn’t even feel real I can’t get my head around it. Is anyone else seeing something like this, or is it just me? I’m starting to wonder if there’s something else going on because it’s not a “normal” decline… it’s a cliff edge. For those that don't know, my site is nearly 20 years old and rankings seem to stayed the same.

Comment ID #6806730143 12/08/2025 12:26 pm

Michael Lewittes commented on Business Insider To Use Custom GPT AI To Publish Quick News Stories

Having been in journalism for two decades, as an editor at some of the top New York and national newspapers and magazines, then having founded a content company that had outsized traffic (thanks to SEO), and now having created Ranktify, which is designed to enhance one's content with expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness, this feels like a thoroughly bad idea. The content will be thin. It will not be helpful, additive, or better than others writing on the same topic. It seems like it will not have any uniqueness or expertise. There's also a chance, no matter how good one thinks their grounding is, that there may be hallucinations. I'm sorry if this is harsh, but I love journalism and, in terms of SEO and generally disseminating "news," this sounds like a terrible experiment.

Comment ID #6806693221 12/08/2025 11:06 am

Rodrigo Calvo commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

At this point, "volatility" is just the new normal. Meanwhile, 5-year-old forum threads keep outranking fresh deep-dives. Starting to feel like "Helpful Content" really just meant "Help Yourself to User Content" Seriously, who even knows what "quality" means to the algo these days?

Comment ID #6806640378 12/08/2025 08:56 am

MrSEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

What about in search console do you see any spikes?

Comment ID #6806626714 12/08/2025 08:16 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

I received a lot of page requests from an IP that linked back to CloudRadium which is a defunct company it seems by google reports. When I visit their site, it goes to one of mine, I'm guessing the site is referring back to a previous page.

Comment ID #6806622565 12/08/2025 08:02 am

MrSEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

I´m Noticing mass amounts of crawling across all my sites, anyone else?

Comment ID #6806617221 12/08/2025 07:43 am

Anas commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

My Google Search Console hasn’t updated for the last 65 hours.

Comment ID #6806615599 12/08/2025 07:37 am

racefan01 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

Good morning, Google. The weekend is over, time to continue destroying websites. There were ghostly signs of recovery for two days, but today everything collapsed again.

Comment ID #6806607762 12/08/2025 07:08 am

Ekees SEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

It is a total mess today, again. Downhill still.

Comment ID #6806578627 12/08/2025 04:48 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

Google is crashing the internet and people are not clicking on websites or adverts. It won't end well. Not good for anyone, for short-term profit margins.

Comment ID #6806577270 12/08/2025 04:41 am

clone21 commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

Do offline stuff, I mean it.

Comment ID #6806533682 12/07/2025 11:26 pm

Sensei commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

Given the writing on the wall for what AI will be doing to the economy for at least the next few years, maybe start a YouTube channel called No Income School.

Comment ID #6806343445 12/07/2025 01:07 pm

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

It will mean people will hate it and won't use it if littered with ads, a paid subscription should not have ads

Comment ID #6806314599 12/07/2025 11:53 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

Yeah, ChatGPT is saying they are just showcasing apps built on ChatGPT. It's still an ad even if they aren't directly compensated for it. As far as I'm concerned, ChatGPT is an AI Slop Engine. TechCrunch did a story on these ads/app suggestions this morning, but the story might be pay walled for some: <b>OpenAI says it’s turned off app suggestions that look like ads</b> - <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/07/openai-says-its-turned-off-app-suggestions-that-look-like-ads/">https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/07/openai-says-its-turned-off-app-suggestions-that-look-like-ads/</a> <blockquote>Chen and other OpenAI executives were responding to posts from ChatGPT’s paying subscribers who complained about seeing promotional messages for companies like Peloton and Target. In response, the company said it was only testing ways to show apps built on the ChatGPT app platform that it announced in October, with “no financial component” to those suggestions. (One of the users who’d complained initially about the ads responded skeptically, writing, “Bruhhh… Don’t insult your paying users.”)</blockquote>

Comment ID #6806312817 12/07/2025 11:48 am

Hunar commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated December 3-4

It's funny if you read some of the comments, I think one of the Dev's at OpenAI swears that it's not an Add just a GPT inside. Then all the comments are like uh... That's an Ad...

Comment ID #6806309627 12/07/2025 11:39 am

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