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googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

it's an experiment, I will see how it goes

Comment ID #6800202494 11/22/2025 06:07 pm

sanjuro commented on Google Clarifies Nesting In Reviews & Aggregate Ratings

I've had some strange issues with review snippet this week. Google must have updated more than the documentation. Suddenly, all my snippets have been deactivated with the following error: "Invalid object type for field "<parent_node>"". I had no problem until then. It made no sense but to fix this error I had to change the type of the review from "CriticReview" to "Game", even though it also had an itemReviewed property inside. I'm quite sure this is erroneous but it was accepted as valid. I'm pretty sure the next update is going to detect it as invalid and I'll have to change it back again. In addition, even though all my pages use the same structured data, one of them returned this error: "Unrecognized field "itemReviewed"". Bemusing.

Comment ID #6800198230 11/22/2025 05:53 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

I consider downvotes like two upvotes, so never worry about that stuff. Thing is American politics is FUBAR and doesn't matter who is in power because the end result will probably be the same. The only difference between the political parties is the theatrics they use in an attempt to hide their own self interests and corruption. Other nations around the world would be smart to just ban Google. The way it is now, other countries fine Google and Google sticks to other countries that are big tech puppets like the USA.

Comment ID #6800191984 11/22/2025 05:31 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

I hear what you're saying, but Google looks at that Adsense revenue share as leaving money on the table. Google doesn't want to share revenue just like they don't want to give out free traffic. Google wants to control the entire internet and user experience which allows them to increase user monetization down the road. What Google has done definitely isn't hurting them because they just had a record breaking quarter. When you check for ads, it's best if you have someone you trust do it for you. The reason being is Google is fingerprinting users which allows them to match devices, browsers, etc. to a specific user. Even if you login with a VPN, you may be leaking info that allows Google to know exactly who you are regardless if you change your IP address.

Comment ID #6800190907 11/22/2025 05:27 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

Just saw an MSN article about 3D TV, which didn't turn out to be a big thing in the end. They flopped, and hopefully AI, with its theft, hallucinations and power hunger, will also cause them to flop.

Comment ID #6800154914 11/22/2025 03:40 pm

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

The problem is, Google is loosing six figures by not pushing traffic to my website on the rev/share % on my adx - so I don't understand why. I have checked via VPN and there is 0 adverts in or around the AI overviews and 0 ads in AI mode in my niche. So why would they do that it is crazy.

Comment ID #6800150444 11/22/2025 03:29 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

Yes, I heard about MTG's fall from grace. I think its cult of MAGA that they are afraid of more than him. I expect to get a downvote by a certain poster here for saying that.... She's leaving over the release of Epstein files and it seems she forced his hand on this one but not on BigTech. I read somewhere and you or Uncle may have said it too that Trump is trying to push through a new Executive Order banning and going after AI enemies. <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/trump-ai-executive-order-state-funding.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/trump-ai-executive-order-state-funding.html</a> <blockquote>The order would establish an AI taskforce to launch lawsuits and threaten federal funding for states with contested AI laws.</blockquote>His party and the dems threw out AI directive from the Bill so he's trying again. Why, people don't want it, the politicians didn't want it. Ted Cruz tried to push through an AI directive even though he's a supporter of the AMERICA act and in the end the result was 99 against and 1 for. You know who voted for :D <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/trump-revives-unpopular-ted-cruz-plan-to-punish-states-that-impose-ai-laws/">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/trump-revives-unpopular-ted-cruz-plan-to-punish-states-that-impose-ai-laws/</a>

Comment ID #6800135490 11/22/2025 02:50 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

<blockquote>With that last comment about burning small biz owners, it'll sure as hell will damage him and his party next year and in three years time...</blockquote>Terrible thing is everyone in Trump's political party is afraid of him. Yesterday a Congresswoman who crossed Trump's path announced she is resigning. This will put more fear into Republicans who will tuck their tail between their legs and cower to Trump's demands. This is not how a free society functions. <b>After break with Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene will resign</b> - <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/11/21/nx-s1-5617227/marjorie-taylor-greene-resignation-trump">https://www.npr.org/2025/11/21/nx-s1-5617227/marjorie-taylor-greene-resignation-trump</a> <blockquote>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican who rose to prominence as one of President Trump's biggest defenders and recently became one of his biggest critics, is leaving Congress.</blockquote>

Comment ID #6800127614 11/22/2025 02:31 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

No worries about the paywall, you weren't to know. He's getting BigTech & others to pay for it so that it doesn't attract the attention of financial watchdogs and DOGE as its not taxpayers money, he can say it didn't cost you a dime. There's a lot of things that that money could go towards for Americans and a ballroom isn't one. Like the TV show analogy... Apprentice :D Vance is on record as calling Trump an idiot although not in that exact words and railed against Google before the election and now within touching distance of being President, he'd do anything, your typical grease pole climber rather than a man of principle. With that last comment about burning small biz owners, it'll sure as hell will damage him and his party next year and in three years time... Mind you, would democrats be any less corrupt with Schumer back in power deciding what laws will be voted through, no AOIC and no AMERICA acts.

Comment ID #6800120226 11/22/2025 02:13 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

Maybe Mercury News is paywalling those outside the US? Sorry bout that. You can find other sources searching the title, but what the story says is pretty much common knowledge among us. I think Trump needs a big ballroom to host big techie donation events. Even if Trump can't get full use of it, he's hoping his big techie apprentice puppet Vance will be able to. But the Trump/Vance admin has burned a lot of us small biz owners, so they can't count on us, our families and our employees to support them with what they did to us.

Comment ID #6800088007 11/22/2025 12:55 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

I thought you meant no ads present at all, so my mistake. It's the presence of AI overviews that wipes out 90%+ of the organic traffic for us from #1 ranks in organic. Google including ads in AI overviews won't have much impact since there's not much traffic left to lose.

Comment ID #6800081847 11/22/2025 12:40 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

They've bribed him with paying for the ballroom. How did previous presidents do without one? Alright... Seems that article is subscribers only but what you've said is all we need to know. He's only interested in hearing what people as rich as him are saying and not being objective.

Comment ID #6800034511 11/22/2025 10:51 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

earnings definitely have been the lowest I have seen in 19 years of doing this. Traffic is down more today but it's Saturday. Who knows. Organic traffic will go to 0. I have no doubt. They refuse to send us any traffic. Even a little bit to keep us going. It's crazy

Comment ID #6800028437 11/22/2025 10:37 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

I might look into this. And, do some research to see if I can trigger ads. Right now I have seen 0 adverts in AI overviews or AI mode, but ads around it. I don't think governments around the world are happy for one company to BE the internet. I am hoping advertisors will see such low conversions they will just stop advertising.

Comment ID #6800016657 11/22/2025 10:09 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

Big techies see Trump as an easy play. All they have to do is toss some money at Trump and stroke his ego to get him onboard with their plans. Having the world's richest big techie CEOs fawn over him is an ego-boost Trump loves and has made him an easy puppet. Story is from early this month, but covers the basics of big techies manipulating Trump pretty well. <b>Silicon Valley tech firms’ snug relationship with Trump deepens, bears fruit</b> - <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/02/silicon-valley-trump-tech-apple-meta-google/">https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/02/silicon-valley-trump-tech-apple-meta-google/</a> <blockquote>Silicon Valley technology companies’ cozy relationship with President Donald Trump appears to be deepening and bearing fruit, as firms and their leaders show fealty with gifts, policies, and public statements of support, and CEOs show their ability to influence the President on matters of politics and business.</blockquote><blockquote>Affinities between Trump and Big Tech go both ways, said Sonoma State University political science professor David McCuan. Big Tech is seen as an engine of transformative change led by people who destroy convention — similar to how the President sees his administration and himself, McCuan said. For Trump, involving himself closely with the tech industry “allows him to think of himself in historic-change terms,” McCuan said, and the tech CEOs “can feed that like candy to him.”</blockquote>

Comment ID #6800011102 11/22/2025 09:55 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

Legal action is going to be expensive, Google have deep pockets and can play for time. You're better off as a class action if there are. The UK is no longer in the EU, so any action there won't affect us unless your primary business focus is the EU.

Comment ID #6799997093 11/22/2025 09:19 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

Wise because just as easily as Google giveth, they will taketh away harder and quicker than giveth. I think most companies will share your mindset because search engines, not just Google, are no longer reliable or a friend.

Comment ID #6799995903 11/22/2025 09:16 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

new site, this time i won't hire and outsource to anyone: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4e90754aa0a5bb876af019f45d13fa01531134fc8fd2fe97d9e6da321bb43359.gif

Comment ID #6799992786 11/22/2025 09:07 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

<blockquote>Mad thing is Google is not advertising on my keywords so it is loosing revenue as well.</blockquote>Just because you don't see ads doesn't mean Google isn't showing them to others. I've been able to trigger ads for others who made similar claims. And for those searches where ads are prohibited, Google uses PAA, PASF and video blocks to move users into categories where ads are accepted. Google has become extremely manipulative and in these days what we see may only apply to us because that's the false reality Google has created.

Comment ID #6799979989 11/22/2025 08:29 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

I am seeing drops of 10% day on day, not good, worse earnings in 20 years yesterday and also 500k social media views on my video so that must have bought traffic. Mad thing is Google is not advertising on my keywords so it is loosing revenue as well. Crazy times. When it drops to half it is right now I will be personally taking legal action via the technology courts in the UK for IP infringement as they are using my content in AI overviews. This whole thing is not okay and stealing the entire internet to train AI is not okay either. I am not waiting a year for the EU to act either, by then i could be wiped out.

Comment ID #6799950813 11/22/2025 06:40 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

I agree with that as well. It's not just AI that is defective; it's the search as well. You know when Google is broken, when Google's #1 result is a Wikipedia page that mentions the keyword ONCE and number two is about the keyword... And with that new AI directive, because he couldn't get through the Fat Ugly law in the summer, you know we're screwed.

Comment ID #6799921509 11/22/2025 04:02 am

Daniel commented on Google Ads Testing Share Icon On Ad Units

You would think that you would first give the share function a proper upgrade before testing it or adding it to Google Ads. That is my opinion.

Comment ID #6799901017 11/22/2025 01:41 am

Sensei commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

True, blue collar jobs will have the longest staying power. Although it's clear even those jobs aren't safe in the grand scheme of things, when Elon is posting shit like this of the not too distant future he's working to create: <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1991735383974113655">https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1991735383974113655</a>

Comment ID #6799900899 11/22/2025 01:41 am

Sensei commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9afea007a4e71d7b70120a7206268f620e031ccc313b1293852bf30806220ceb.gif

Comment ID #6799853331 11/21/2025 09:25 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

The way I see it is work will be optional because there won't be any jobs to work at. And money won't matter because most won't have any at all. If there is UBI, then those credits can only be used on Amazon or Google. I just can't imagine how bad it would be. Probably like the movie Idiocracy with the government owned by Google.

Comment ID #6799826985 11/21/2025 07:50 pm

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

Isn't Google using Gemini in Gmail too? You can't escape their AI plans.

Comment ID #6799821342 11/21/2025 07:27 pm

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

work will be optional if you will be happy with living in a box and $2000 a year UBI. Maybe basic healthcare, which is one doctor's visit a year. That's not living. That's below minimum wage by a lot!

Comment ID #6799821127 11/21/2025 07:26 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

That's not to drive traffic to websites but to cover their asses legally. Google knows their AI is a defective product, and they think that larger notice will give them immunity and it very well may considering the rigged courts and the Waffle House are in their corner.

Comment ID #6799816389 11/21/2025 07:09 pm

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

They're all beating the same drum and spewing out the same lies. Imagine if money doesn't matter and work is optional. What would people do all day? Watch their Google TV with a bunch of ads and TV shows like in the movie Idiocracy? Imagine so many lives without purpose and people sitting on recliners that have built in toilet seats. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/17b354505383e45ae537a3406d4fda06fb8a237f0dad02e1e4542064c560ea58.jpg

Comment ID #6799814984 11/21/2025 07:04 pm

Surfer Boy Pizza commented on Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility - A Gemini 3 Update

i guess we'll see [at least] a core update in December. would be shocking if they don't announce one. would have to wonder if they've stopped announcing.

Comment ID #6799791195 11/21/2025 05:47 pm

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