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clone21 commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

Adsense only consist of a very tiny of their revenue, literally can be neglected. You should know its strategy now: they got enough data to generate every search query answer, no need for small publishers anymore, and big puslishers still pay for their PPC ads. That means, in theory, Google didn't lose anything, they even earn more money than before.

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Barry Schwartz commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

Got it.

Comment ID #6830566359 01/28/2026 08:15 pm

Rowan commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

Barry, anoter one of my post got marked as spam again... Ugh. I really hate Disqus now.

Comment ID #6830565925 01/28/2026 08:14 pm

Rowan commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

You know what’s also terrifying? I have an online friend who is also in the internet marketing niche (affiliate) but he doesn’t do SEO. More on social media marketing and PPC advertising. He told me he had fired all his few writers whom he had worked with for years. He just uses ChatGPT to craft most of his copies now. He says that after a year of using AI for both his copywriting aid and content, he hasn’t received a complaint from his audience. It converts too. Not many can detect “human articles” as well as before, as AI models are getting smart. In fact, if you give specific instructions/prompts to ChatGPT or any AI chatbot, they can generate content with “human feelings”. I remember I talked to my writer about this before, and she said she was amazed but worried at the same time. Amazed that it sounds totally human with emotions; worried because she fears her job as a freelance writer will be over (and sure enough, it is... Last I heard, she's in therapy because of all this). But videos-wise, I agree with you. Whenever there’s some AI slop video on Youtube, you can be sure people will leave comments like “AI garbage” or “AI nonsense.” Anyway, as stated in my earlier comment, Youtube is just leaving it to users to decide if the video is good or not. If users detect it as AI slop or “poor quality”, they will be sure to hit the thumbs down button and/or leave the video immediately. Youtube’s algorithm picks up on this and will reduce its visibility. I also won’t be surprised if they filter this from their AI training too. Many affected webmasters for the past few years had jumped to Youtube and they’ve unknowingly become trapped in Google’s game all over again. The comment section on Youtube is also a treasure cove for AI training.

Comment ID #6830565083 01/28/2026 08:11 pm

Rowan commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

I feel you. I hate Reddit too… It is full of propaganda posts (China’s wumaos), censorship, and many people talking out of their ass. But in some subreddits, the moderators ban any AI slop and so on. Also, there’s Youtube. Never forget, many who had been affected by Google updates years ago had jumped to Youtube. It is straight out of the frying pan into the fire, because not only did their earnings drop way less, Youtube’s algorithm screws them up further, just like Search algorithm updates. But many old and new players kept trying their luck with Youtube. And, guess what? It is a winning strategy for Google. If users detect the video to be ‘low quality’ or ‘AI slop’ they will hit the thumbs down button and leave. This tells Youtube’s algorithm that the video is of poor quality, and it gets less visibility. Also, I am dead sure the algorithm will also filter such content from their AI training. And taking my “reviews” as an example… Some Youtubers or influencers do unboxing and product reviews for their millions of subscribers. All these are just gold mines for Youtube/Google. Let's not forget the valuable comments left by other users too. Google had planned all this while and thought of everything. Everything is to their advantage. We’re on the losing end. I apologise if I sound like a downer… But it is over.

Comment ID #6830560979 01/28/2026 07:58 pm

Rowan commented on Microsoft Bing Ads Revenue Up 10% - Growth Slowing?

Damn, it’s so over, man… We were so positive Google would ‘crash and burn’. Back when we noticed all the good sites were destroyed, we believed (or, rather, hypothesised) that users would move to Bing instead. Unfortunately, we’re all wrong. It sucks when we aren’t vindicated, but it sure sucks harder when the perpetrators become even more successful. If Google reports their financial statements next week and it blows everything… I’m gotta go back and hit the bottle.

Comment ID #6830544914 01/28/2026 07:09 pm

John A. User commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

Can you provide links please so I can read these comments?

Comment ID #6830525040 01/28/2026 06:14 pm

Sam commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

I know it looks bad right now.... but at the end of the day people want human articles and human videos. They don't want AI. The advertisers are the ones in control and right now they are moving their budgets. I have friends who work in ad tech and normally spend millions on Google ads but have now pulled all budgets over to Meta. You got people on Tiktok who are black hat saying they earned $20k in 7 days using Claude code to create spam. If Google wants a no click internet then they will have a no advertising internet too, and if they don't roll back to 2021 the whole internet will be one cesspit of AI spam....with no ads or revenue. They must see the numbers now, all of us loosing so much revenue means they are too. Watching publishers go to zero AdSense while spending billions on the thing causing it is genuinely insane guys.

Comment ID #6830510960 01/28/2026 05:39 pm

Sam commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

Reddit is full of AI spam itself and people are leaving reddit now due to it. Reddit cannot replace all websites on the internet.

Comment ID #6830508032 01/28/2026 05:33 pm

Sam commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

Go away bobby,

Comment ID #6830506880 01/28/2026 05:30 pm

Sam commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

No I think you're wrong. Check out all the comments on social media from people off the street. AI got a terrible brand name: taking our water, making us pay more electric and some dumb ones it's taking our jobs. People don't like AI, throw in all us publishers who are also users and there is a massive push for a non AI world.

Comment ID #6830506662 01/28/2026 05:30 pm

Sam commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

Remember Ask Jeeves. Google is the next one.

Comment ID #6830505924 01/28/2026 05:28 pm

Sensei commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

Lol I know, it's fucked. Coincidentally I saw it trending yesterday and it was an extreme example of the weakest simps. Just like pssy politicians that sell out to Google.

Comment ID #6830505675 01/28/2026 05:28 pm

Sam commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

They think forcing users is the only way and users are done, they don't want AI it's all hype and a big fat stock market scam. Go to social media and read the comments from normal folks.

Comment ID #6830505393 01/28/2026 05:27 pm

John A. User commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

WTF Video, I know you're emphasising a point but what is that girl....

Comment ID #6830443962 01/28/2026 03:29 pm

Dan commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/85967eb06eb933213da144717ceaa5ffa99cae1d74b90ed61743cc917d95597b.png Flatlined, got nothing more to give.

Comment ID #6830443207 01/28/2026 03:28 pm

John A. User commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

I suspect that down the line, Google will snap up cheap content producing companies such as for example CinemaBlend and those authors will end up writing for Google. CinemaBlend may still be a separate site with their articles but Google AI will consume the content and discretely pay the authors. So I see we'll still see some of the popular companies around still but they'll have become owned by Google.

Comment ID #6830442895 01/28/2026 03:27 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated

I agree the Supreme Court needs to put restraints on Trump and also any future president who may decide to go the same way. We shall see what happens when they finally reveal their decision...

Comment ID #6830438495 01/28/2026 03:19 pm

John A. User commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

I'd say people are so lazy that they will take whatever they're given. If they weren't, they'd be checking facts. Given the state of the internet, its looks like people want an answering machine otherwise we'd have seen a lot of change.

Comment ID #6830437604 01/28/2026 03:17 pm

John A. User commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

Well, they created this mess starting in May 22 with that awful update which has encouraged crap to fester online. They should roll back to there but maybe they have but because the crap has enlarged so much we can't tell. I agree with the walled garden but only so that they keep all the profits for themselves.

Comment ID #6830436123 01/28/2026 03:14 pm

Durant Imboden commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

As a publisher, I think this is a terrible idea, but Google's desire for a walled garden may be only one motive behind the change. Another reason could simply be that the Web is now so full of crap (much of it AI-generated) that an AI Overview panel may be preferable to the dreck in the organic results--especially when Google has so much trouble keeping junk from rising to the top in the traditional "ten blue links." IMO, we're approaching the point where search as we've known it is simply dead.

Comment ID #6830434083 01/28/2026 03:11 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

This would have never been possible had Google been forced to sell Chrome. That terrible Judge Mehta unleashed Google to use their dominance in search, and the browser market, to ensure they create another monopoly in AI. <b>Google brings more Gemini AI features to Chrome browser</b> <blockquote>As part of the new features, Google is introducing a new Chrome design that includes a panel on the right side of the browser that keeps the Gemini chatbot available as users surf the web.</blockquote>Full story: <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/google-brings-more-gemini-ai-features-to-chrome-browser-.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/google-brings-more-gemini-ai-features-to-chrome-browser-.html</a>

Comment ID #6830405718 01/28/2026 02:15 pm

Dark Red Owl commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

Google wants all publishers to die. Google sees you as a burden. Yesterday I sold all my Alphabet shares and I will not buy any more. Wait for the new financial report. Their shares will collapse by at least 20 percent in the coming months. The reason is that Google's algorithm destroys the market, distorts the market, creates unfair competition. People are the market, not the algorithm. There is no way the market will not punish Google. Artificial intelligence cannot replace real sites and media created by real people and reporters. Gemini is like an answering machine that tells what it heard here and there. People do not want an answering machine to tell them the news. Gemini will fail like the metaverse of Zuckerberg and Google Plus.

Comment ID #6830387535 01/28/2026 01:40 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated

I'm not so sure. Trump's willy-nilly threats of tariffs against any country who opposed his takeover of Greenland demonstrates a need for the Supreme Court to put restraints on his use of tariffs.

Comment ID #6830342936 01/28/2026 12:16 pm

UncleKrusty commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

Don't forget Pinterest which is laying off 15% of their workforce in what they describe as a pivot to AI. I'm sure the main reason why Pinterest is shedding workers is because they've been wrecked by a big loss in Google traffic like everyone else. 15% of their reported workforce of 5,200 employees is 780 jobs gone. <b>Pinterest will lay off 15% of its workforce as the platform pivots resources to AI</b> <blockquote>Pinterest plans to lay off under 15% of its workforce, as part of broader restructuring that arrives as the image-sharing platform pivots more of its money to artificial intelligence.</blockquote>Full story: <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pinterest-layoffs-ai-cf278cf06929db07d5b1310ab7f91861">https://apnews.com/article/pinterest-layoffs-ai-cf278cf06929db07d5b1310ab7f91861</a>

Comment ID #6830337168 01/28/2026 12:05 pm

Piotr Kowalski commented on Google Exploring Ways To Allow Sites To Opt Out Of Search AI Features

too late. They already stole everything they wanted.

Comment ID #6830321602 01/28/2026 11:34 am

Rowan commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

Thanks, Barry. Cheers.

Comment ID #6830319439 01/28/2026 11:30 am

Barry Schwartz commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

Got it.

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Rowan commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

Barry, one of my recent post got marked as spam. Fucking disqus.

Comment ID #6830318561 01/28/2026 11:28 am

Mumuu commented on Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Now Jump To AI Mode

I think we need more of this, a very very nice feature. "Looking forward to it"

Comment ID #6830317810 01/28/2026 11:27 am

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