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Jacques Bouchard commented on Google Adds LLMs.txt To Its Web Sites For Other Reasons

Google Added LLMs.txt To It's Web Sites For Other Reasons Than Discovery - *its

Comment ID #6820237417 01/07/2026 05:23 pm

Hunar commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Pretty much what i'm seeing across all my sites today as well.

Comment ID #6820220587 01/07/2026 04:52 pm

Dark Red Owl commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Google is conducting a special operation to purge the people who created the web. In the beginning, we were reporters and editors, we had a paper newspaper and a website, we had ads from local businesses, we were happy that Google showed us in the search results. Then Google became the intermediary between us and the advertisers. Google took over the advertising market in every city. It threw crumbs at us and made us grateful. It imposed vague rules, the purpose of which was to keep us under control. The last core update came to destroy us and leave some copy-paste sites 1 2 years old.

Comment ID #6820180780 01/07/2026 03:45 pm

SpXmtdd commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Holy fuck... Traffic = zero for all sites

Comment ID #6820169723 01/07/2026 03:28 pm

Wizz bob commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Reality is most traffic goes to Google Ads and AI answers which dominate the search results. Also the fact is less people use Google and use tools like ChatGPT to find answers, information.

Comment ID #6820127259 01/07/2026 02:19 pm

John A. User commented on Microsoft Testing Larger Ask Copilot Button On Bing Home Page

Maybe if they cleaned up their results page, they'd be on a winner rather than pushing overrated Overviews.

Comment ID #6820110009 01/07/2026 01:51 pm

Dan commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Experiencing the worst traffic since sites conception following the December core update, no change since its conclusion, only traffic I get now is chinese bots : ( So frustrating and upsettng.

Comment ID #6820103662 01/07/2026 01:40 pm

Hunar commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

I'm also seeing some of the lowest traffic i've had. Yesterday and Today.

Comment ID #6820074614 01/07/2026 12:49 pm

David Dennison commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

LMAOOOO!

Comment ID #6820063447 01/07/2026 12:28 pm

Helga commented on Some News Publishers Took A Big Hit With The Google Core Update

Sir, I may have dementia like our last President who issued unconstitutional mandates and called half the country domestic terrorists if they voted for Trump while having his FBI work with Google for political censorship, but I don't recall President Trump being a dictator like that to his fellow Americans.

Comment ID #6820052313 01/07/2026 12:07 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Some News Publishers Took A Big Hit With The Google Core Update

Trump's in bed with Big Tech and shares the same pillow as them. Condoning Google's actions, along with his dictator style of rule, leaves my last comment as about respectful as I can possibly be.

Comment ID #6820032731 01/07/2026 11:29 am

UncleKrusty commented on Some News Publishers Took A Big Hit With The Google Core Update

Denmark already offered to allow a greater US military presence in Greenland, but Trump ignored it. Whether it's just Trump's way of changing the news or not, it's a highly irresponsible act to threaten our own allies with military force.

Comment ID #6820031756 01/07/2026 11:27 am

Ricardo Vidallon commented on Google Adds LLMs.txt To Its Web Sites For Other Reasons

A list of early adopters. <a href="https://llmstxt.site/">https://llmstxt.site/</a>

Comment ID #6819982862 01/07/2026 09:48 am

Helga commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Perhaps this has to do with yesterday being January 6th, which CNN reported as the darkest day in world history. Thank heaven we survived to see this morning.

Comment ID #6819960468 01/07/2026 08:58 am

Renan Ferrer commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Yesterday was my worst AdSense earnings since 2019. Google is dead.

Comment ID #6819958489 01/07/2026 08:53 am

Daniel commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

exactly!

Comment ID #6819958171 01/07/2026 08:52 am

Saiki commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Here traffic as well as ads earnings are at record low. The only thing up is bot traffic.

Comment ID #6819956982 01/07/2026 08:50 am

Dark Red Owl commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

That's right. Google wants to kill you slowly economically and physically.

Comment ID #6819946774 01/07/2026 08:24 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Yes, they done something 6th of Jan so all adsense is down. PV of adsense are about 34% down something must be broken or the auctions AI is not working properly.

Comment ID #6819946234 01/07/2026 08:22 am

Daniel commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping

Yep.. big drop yesterday, big drop today...

Comment ID #6819942756 01/07/2026 08:13 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Hiring Chief of Staff, Search Intelligence

Looking at the horrible decaying state of Google's over-spammed search result pages, my thoughts are Rajan Patel's resignation would best serve the company and world. But it looks like Patel is staying and can't handle the heat which is why he needs a "proxy" with qualifications "leading organizational transformation" and "large-scale change management." Sounds a lot like Patel needs help firing people because he doesn't have the spine to do it himself.

Comment ID #6819930604 01/07/2026 07:36 am

googleisjoke commented on Some News Publishers Took A Big Hit With The Google Core Update

i can imagine how trump likes it jahah!

Comment ID #6819914866 01/07/2026 06:43 am

googleisjoke commented on Some News Publishers Took A Big Hit With The Google Core Update

so far good https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/daf89df00e5d1979d12a4bd1c46a0dc5194ef9a0b47cdc6a99c235fe76cda0da.png

Comment ID #6819914551 01/07/2026 06:42 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Hiring AI Answers Quality Senior Software Engineer

Why would Google need to hire a coder for AI answers, with preferred qualifications in algorithms, if their AI is intelligent? Google's AI is just a fancy name for Google's content theft algo that steals content and republishes it in a spun form. Article spinners have been around for over 20 years, which is what Google's AI basically is.

Comment ID #6819914330 01/07/2026 06:41 am

Helga commented on Some News Publishers Took A Big Hit With The Google Core Update

John sir, you are correct. Mr. Schumer is a wicked man.

Comment ID #6819871652 01/07/2026 03:22 am

Helga commented on Some News Publishers Took A Big Hit With The Google Core Update

Dear John, our President Donald John Trump says America is respected again. We should not doubt our Commander in Chief. My grandson Robert has the same condition regarding President Trump as you, having convulsions every time his name is mentioned and even wets his bed. It is nothing to be ashamed of John dear.

Comment ID #6819871290 01/07/2026 03:20 am

Jantje commented on Some News Publishers Took A Big Hit With The Google Core Update

Only 2 days ago you wrote: "Best update ever. Traffic is good, like before 2024 March update." So what is it?

Comment ID #6819861275 01/07/2026 02:15 am

Jantje commented on Google Hiring AI Answers Quality Senior Software Engineer

If user asks question then Answer = "Garbage Indian result"

Comment ID #6819861034 01/07/2026 02:14 am

John A. User commented on Some News Publishers Took A Big Hit With The Google Core Update

He needs to effing start acting like one and earn the respect again.

Comment ID #6819860319 01/07/2026 02:09 am

John A. User commented on Some News Publishers Took A Big Hit With The Google Core Update

I know this is going off-topic but... I'm hopeful that both Republicans and Democrats will come together to stop this madness. In all likelihood, Trump will settle for more military bases on Greenland and probably allow more companies to mine the country. Remember, he's never been a politician before he was President but a businessman, its the only way he knows. They bully their way to the top. As @disqus_tcrypv6vxh:disqus says, he's doing it to divert from more important and pressing things and no, I'm not talking about Epstein, I'm talking about the economy and AI. He's wagging the dog.

Comment ID #6819860169 01/07/2026 02:08 am

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