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MrSEO commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

so i look in the top 20.. 80% is pure AI page spam or hacked resutls.. some without any actual text. Why is it every update pushes the junk higher? 2 years since the helpful content and more and more grabage. They can't be that bad seriously? Gogle now looks like Alta Vista fromt he early naughties just ridden with garbage.

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DataDonkey commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Correct. They probably figured out how to use AI to quickly create offshore bank accounts to fill with cash to payoff American politicians and judges. If any of them get caught, they will just say AI is experimental and may make mistakes.

Comment ID #6810867253 12/17/2025 09:45 am

Jantje commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Welcome to the club, mine was 10+ years old. Zero use of ai. Gone in a split second.

Comment ID #6810864005 12/17/2025 09:38 am

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Because of AI I guess?

Comment ID #6810859265 12/17/2025 09:31 am

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

I wouldn't call it terrorism, more like drug dependency; they're like Pablo Escobar. They've created a fantastic package in the beginning, then it got taken over by the investors who push for more and more money. In my view, it all started when Schmit left and weak Page gave in. Image Search, Snippets etc. I bet Page & Brin were forced out , not stepping down on their own volition. Scumdar is a Yes man and jumps however high they tell him. They keep telling you how to make money from adsense and steal all the traffic. They say put more adverts on and in doing so that destroys your site which results in users going elsewhere or just sticking on Google.

Comment ID #6810857214 12/17/2025 09:30 am

DataDonkey commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Spamdar is a graduate from the McKinsey consultancy group that churns out corrupt executives. Breaking laws is only natural for him and the Google Crime Syndicate he controls. At least it looks like McKinsey will be laying off 10% of their workforce. Probably because there's no need to lobby corrupt politicians in the USA who have been fully onboarded to fulfill the Poop Technocracy vision of the future.

Comment ID #6810856606 12/17/2025 09:28 am

Dark Red Owl commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

What they do is total terrorism. First they lure you into becoming dependent on them and then they strangle you in an instant. They come up with some hypocritical generalities about how they were rewarding, not punishing. How can one invest in a quality product in the absurd environment of the monopoly of the sadists from Google

Comment ID #6810852723 12/17/2025 09:20 am

Ekees SEO commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

It is an absolute shambles these last couple of weeks. Conversions from G are almost gone, and I have to live off Bing and Duckduckgo. Some revenue, but not enough to survive.

Comment ID #6810852565 12/17/2025 09:19 am

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

The EU have opened an investigation into AI Overviews, and Trump doesn't like it, he's threatening tariffs. Sadly, not much will be done now.

Comment ID #6810849749 12/17/2025 09:13 am

Dark Red Owl commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Complete absurdity. I had never encountered such evil before Christmas. I didn't think such evil existed. They ruined our 15-year-old website in one hour. We have been 12 journalists for 20 years. Currently, our competitors are publishing our materials in Discover. What Google is doing violates at least 2 EU laws - on competition and on copyright. Instead of regulating their system, they are destroying proven websites.

Comment ID #6810846599 12/17/2025 09:06 am

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

It was noted some time ago, and there was a viral video about it, for which Barry wrote an article it. Make Organic results crap, so the user is so frustrated they click on an advert and Google wins. Its all about forcing users to click adverts. In the AMITeur Mehta court case, it was pointed out that Google deliberately does this, make the results so poor, that they keep searching until they click on an advert.

Comment ID #6810845501 12/17/2025 09:04 am

Claire commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

yes!!! i reported this earlier too. i switched back to bing. im looking for xmas presents and i keep landing on foreign websites or spam sites. when i search for answers, all i get is ai slop websites or trash sites that doesn't answer at all. they just repeat keyword phrases in headlines... it is deliberate SEO spam technique and google is rewarding it. wtf!!!

Comment ID #6810839977 12/17/2025 08:50 am

Matt Rissa commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Organic. Sponsored results seem better, but organic (web, images and products) take me to foreign shops most of the time, predominantly US & Australia...

Comment ID #6810823615 12/17/2025 08:13 am

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Are those links organic or sponsored links which show foreign currencies. I'm guessing the shop links are organic and the sponsored links are valid nation ones? or am I wrong?

Comment ID #6810809051 12/17/2025 07:47 am

John A. User commented on Google Testing Very Long Expandable AI-Generated Search Result Snippet Descriptions

Even less of a need to go to websites now. The Internet is truly dead.

Comment ID #6810807726 12/17/2025 07:45 am

Matt Rissa commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

As a user, this has to be one of the worst updates I've seen. I've been looking for things to purchse and 80% of shops I come across are from US, Australia, China, etc. with prices in dollars and other local currencies. I'm based in the UK.

Comment ID #6810800816 12/17/2025 07:24 am

Mark W commented on Google Says Optimization For AI Search Is The Same As For Traditional

You guys need to read your blogs. There are some glaring spelling mistakes or random sentences that make no sense.

Comment ID #6810786499 12/17/2025 06:32 am

googleisjoke commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

1. did you traffic dropped after that? If not, how long since you keep blocking? 2. can it affect seo in some way ? I heard ad networks said it's better to not block any traffic 3. that said can it affect ad revenue? I don't think so? 4. why not block russia?

Comment ID #6810783945 12/17/2025 06:28 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

I have blocked China, SG and HK.

Comment ID #6810780583 12/17/2025 06:13 am

googleisjoke commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

don't you worry that they will get your site down? I once blocked russia and my site went down right after

Comment ID #6810753692 12/17/2025 04:39 am

FF222 commented on Google Says Optimization For AI Search Is The Same As For Traditional

The only difference is, that optimzing for AI doesn't make sense, because there's no reward for appearing in the AI generated answers. Users will not click through to your site, so you'll not be able to recoup any costs you invested into optimizing your content. Just shows you again why the "AI economy" is unsustainable, and why it will lead to the complete degeneration of the web even for content that will still stay on it or will still get published.

Comment ID #6810751876 12/17/2025 04:30 am

Cunir commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

I block China and other countries through CloudFlare and loads of visits still show up on GA. They don't show up in CloudFlare's own stats though, so I don't trust the info in GA - I'm sure they estimate a lot of the traffic

Comment ID #6810733268 12/17/2025 02:56 am

Leary Liang commented on Google Warns Not To Use NoIndex Tags In Pages That Use JavaScript

What sticks with me most about noindex is an experiment I once saw where someone put the noindex tag inside the body, and it actually worked, the page didn’t get indexed. That story never fails to make me smile.

Comment ID #6810658773 12/16/2025 10:14 pm

John A. User commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Strange that its stopped reporting CWV for Mobile but is reporting for Desktop. I have the same version sent for desktop and mobile. My site is predominantly a desktop site, but that still doesn't explain the drop. Also, I have noticed, there's been an increase in desktop CWV all of a sudden, but I can't reproduce the error in Chrome or Webpagetest :( https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/36291d5995212451d6fdc1f5b8ddf61032e8fe44434a94f7c6016bbc09d6e231.png

Comment ID #6810605233 12/16/2025 07:19 pm

Kf commented on Google Changing Q&A Feature In Google Maps For Ask

Yeah this is actually good. The q and a are very stale. Some are dumb questions like are you open, some are t years old

Comment ID #6810598553 12/16/2025 06:56 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

It's definitely bad and getting worse.

Comment ID #6810591038 12/16/2025 06:31 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Yes, the GEO IP DB is paid and works extremely well for country blocking. But Alibaba, TenCent, etc. have servers all over the world so those must be addressed manually. We're ecom and get attempted credit card testing fraud orders too, and those come from all over the world including compromised PCs in the USA running hidden proxies. With country blocks in place, and dealing with more elusive scraper bots as they become known, we've locked most of them out and have it under control.

Comment ID #6810589796 12/16/2025 06:27 pm

Sam commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Yep

Comment ID #6810561015 12/16/2025 05:05 pm

Sam commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

I just blocked a bot 70k in one day that looked like a fake google user agent, I have never seen so much scraping

Comment ID #6810560664 12/16/2025 05:05 pm

OKmann commented on Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact

Is anyone able to access the "settings" tab within GSC? Across all my properties, I've been hit with a 504 error for at least 3 weeks now. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1bacd4efc80ae7e3e78447cf98eb0d35053968b1cf59f53e3d3a73610d3df8ff.png

Comment ID #6810560611 12/16/2025 05:04 pm

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