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Below are the most recent 30 comments. I try to keep it clean of comment spam, but some times things get through and it takes me several hours to get to it. So please excuse any of that comment spam.
Dark OG commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
<blockquote>MisInformation and DisInformation is not free speech when it is wrong. </blockquote>Nga you can't believe in free speech and expect an unbiased arbitrator of what is considered misinformation and disinformation at the same time. It was already tried anyways under Biden and we all saw how that went nga.
<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/27/business/mark-zuckerberg-meta-biden-censor-covid-2021">https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/27/business/mark-zuckerberg-meta-biden-censor-covid-2021
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<a href="https://x.com/adamcarolla/status/2010164775045738693">https://x.com/adamcarolla/status/2010164775045738693</a>
Comment ID #6822028406
01/11/2026 10:42 am
John A. User commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
I lost count how many adverts i saw in five minutes I watched. Three at the start and then two groups of two. Sure, Youtube needs to make money but overkill.
I agreed with a lot of what he said, I know I will be downvoted by some people just because I agreed with a Democrat, TW & FG being two people who'll downvote me guaranteed.
MisInformation and DisInformation is not free speech when it is wrong. I do like community notes though and if we can't ban M & D, at least we can challenge it.
The 18 year limits is a good idea and it'll affect liberals and conservatives alike.
He is right that there is oligarch is taking over, just look at all the AI friendly laws coming out. When an AI law was voted 99-1 against, they just persuaded Trumpty to create a XO to get round it. Trumpty tried twice about AI and both times he lost but I'm sure the AI Brigade spoke to Trumpty and persuaded him to win the AI Race, you have to do it.
AI Laws are needed but everyone is going in the opposite direction to give them a free reign and its none about the safety and security that AI poses. US maybe growing in economy but its not taking everyone with them, AI replacing jobs and destroying businesses. The rich maybe driving the economy but everyone needs to go up too.
Comment ID #6822018318
01/11/2026 10:18 am
DataDonkey commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
When the deals end, these platforms (Reddit as well), will have nothing to negotiate with since they have been carved out to the core by Google - leaving them with no value. Google will have all the power to set the terms of any new deals or simply walk away to allow those platforms to collapse. I hate to admit it, but Geriatric Joe was right about one thing in his farewell address. Big tech oligarchs and their Republicrat allies in DC are accumulating a concentration of power.
<a href="https://youtu.be/T8vmhmilluM?si=npV37dTJcsNWelXq&t=444">https://youtu.be/T8vmhmilluM?si=npV37dTJcsNWelXq&t=444</a>
Comment ID #6821995453
01/11/2026 09:21 am
John A. User commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
I have, and always will, use Stack Overflow as my first call. StackOverflow doesn't care; they've got a deal with Google to train on the data. The question is, though, how long is the deal for? What happens at the end of the deal, if there is an end? Thank you very much for your data, and now F. Off.
Comment ID #6821939693
01/11/2026 05:42 am
Daniel commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
yep... worse than yesterday
Comment ID #6821937148
01/11/2026 05:29 am
Daniel commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
worse than yesterday...
Comment ID #6821937119
01/11/2026 05:29 am
Sam commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
Stack overflow has lost 98% of traffic to AI normally 200k questions per month but in Dec 2025 there was just 3,862.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/60cba77482386a002a1448abd974c2e5b79b947540e328803a12b51f44c784f2.png
Comment ID #6821926710
01/11/2026 04:35 am
2026 commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
Bad Day everyday
Comment ID #6821909221
01/11/2026 02:46 am
clone21 commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
because it is crazy
Comment ID #6821858151
01/10/2026 10:16 pm
Dan commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
Bump on this, curious
Comment ID #6821736186
01/10/2026 04:16 pm
googleisjoke commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
new site started 3 mnths ago, algo is drunk I think.. i mean WHY it fucking grows, now I never left this shit!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b28f89fe118e3de41ffafa2395f8f022002a133134b80d241c3ab4d9506a020c.png
Comment ID #6821655605
01/10/2026 01:18 pm
Ted (or Big T) commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
Yes, total shit today. Traffic is dropped.
Comment ID #6821621294
01/10/2026 12:07 pm
DataDonkey commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
If what you're doing helps to put food on the table and pay the bills, it may be a good short-term measure taken while looking for the next off-ramp to take. Because the Poop Technocracy has damaged the web so badly, it will surely die by suffocating under a huge pile of Googleshit. Only option I see now is to vote against the Republicrats, to remove them from power, since they have aligned themselves with the Technocrats to expedite the destruction of small businesses.
Comment ID #6821612768
01/10/2026 11:49 am
DataDonkey commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
Seems each day Google is a different level of shitty, making it very hard to gauge. Our sales are coming from other sources because Google is feeding their users China junk.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e6116b9d6644d1a6ac13f0cc47660ca30df115763b8100685f2a8496187476b0.jpg
Comment ID #6821606628
01/10/2026 11:37 am
DataDonkey commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
Chrome probably freezes because it's sending data back home to Google. Best option is to not use Chrome, or any of Google's spyware products/services, because Google weaponizes that data to use against publishers and to train their AI.
Comment ID #6821599927
01/10/2026 11:22 am
Hunar commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
Yep! Seeing the same.
Comment ID #6821598384
01/10/2026 11:19 am
Daniel commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
Bad day today!
Comment ID #6821591504
01/10/2026 11:04 am
FokGoogle commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
Yea Mark is outraged. But that doesn't put food on the table.
Comment ID #6821581044
01/10/2026 10:40 am
FokGoogle commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
I'd rather feed my family. It helps them.
If you can't beat them, join them...
Comment ID #6821580133
01/10/2026 10:39 am
Dimitris Abrazis commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
Same here in the tech niche. From 250K per day same and more drop like you. Now news and discover shows websites that steal our content and classifieds from a tech forum that are not news at all. What the hell is happening?
Comment ID #6821559548
01/10/2026 09:52 am
Dimitris Abrazis commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b6b818a9b64f9c8185468b6cf661a7f3250629df52abd433282acb9019309994.jpg Seems like mine...
Comment ID #6821555822
01/10/2026 09:43 am
Ekees SEO commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
I really don't want to, but AI basis with editing seems the way forward unfortunately. Bills have to be paid.
Comment ID #6821508020
01/10/2026 07:12 am
Mark commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
How does that help anyone? Post a load of stolen content that ranks on 2 search engines nobody uses?
I'd rather start asking people if they want fries with that if thats the level my online activities fall to.
Comment ID #6821493064
01/10/2026 06:04 am
googleisjoke commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
hey any update? did it improve or not yet
Comment ID #6821492615
01/10/2026 06:02 am
Ekees SEO commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
Yes, freezes on mobile.
Comment ID #6821488035
01/10/2026 05:41 am
Ted (or Big T) commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
Why discover shows english websites? My language not english...
Comment ID #6821468945
01/10/2026 04:03 am
John A. User commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
I still see that as pushing CoPilot rather than Classic, I keep my fingers crossed.
Comment ID #6821466284
01/10/2026 03:48 am
Dan commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
+1 here, only traffic I get is from China, lucky if I get one user every 30 minutes from the United States now, down from the typical 300-500 every 30 minutes before the core update.
Comment ID #6821419826
01/09/2026 11:05 pm
PMB Brent commented on
Google Says Don't Turn Your Content Into Bite-Sized Chunks
Barry, are you able to ask Danny for an update on the things he said (last year) Google was working on in order to help site owners who lost all their traffic from the 2023 HCU and subsequent updates? While a few may have recovered, there are still thousands of great sites that have not.
I remember him saying that sites can expect an update to help with this by the end of 2025. We're now in 2026 and there's nothing. I fear that the conversation has sort of moved on from their HCU screwup and these destroyed sites are being forgotten.
If there's any way you can get us an update on this, that would be great.
Comment ID #6821366657
01/09/2026 08:05 pm
Sam commented on
Google Search Ranking Volatility January 6th & AdSense Earnings Dropping
<a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-new-home-page-40707.html">https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-new-home-page-40707.html</a> - nice to see my site being in co-pilot search as a big box, they seem to be changing the vibe
Comment ID #6821352842
01/09/2026 07:23 pm
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