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DataDonkey commented on Google Core Updates Not Done; A New Core Update Should Be Soon

Updates to ranking don't really matter because Google buries organic results under their own ads, AI Overlords slop, pisser type boxes and whatever pile of manure they can dream up next. And those billions of clicks Google's VP of product search Robby Stain says they send every day are going to ads. This is all part of that perfectly described "Poop Technocracy" Sensei enlightened me to.

Comment ID #6807137117 12/09/2025 10:47 am

Hunar commented on Google Core Updates Not Done; A New Core Update Should Be Soon

Yikes.. Whatever is going on right now sure feels like a update. Same traffic patterns, Same Zombie traffic, Same bots. Same staggered conversions. etc. etc.

Comment ID #6807118199 12/09/2025 10:06 am

No Couch Potato commented on Google Core Updates Not Done; A New Core Update Should Be Soon

Going by the past don't be surprised if they drop this over the Christmas hols while no one is around and then everyone gets a nasty surprise when they return to their offices after the break.

Comment ID #6807118061 12/09/2025 10:06 am

Gyi Tsakalakis commented on Google Search Console Adds Granular Weekly & Monthly Data

Any word on a Region filter?

Comment ID #6807106496 12/09/2025 09:40 am

Noor commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

Webmasters should sue AI companies in courts around the world court in every country for stealing content...those content stored at the publisher server... Webmaster should also flood the internet with AI-generated material and let the ai bots end up eat their own garbage... Google should remain as search engine that indexes websites, rather than becoming a website itself by using publishers’ content copy and paste and put it at their main page... Google should also open its database so publishers can copy and paste that data, just as Google currently uses content from publishers under fair use term or learning purpose...

Comment ID #6807094982 12/09/2025 09:14 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

I think OpenAI will be bought or go bust completely. They have squandered their lead in the AI. Bard used to be a joke. Nobody cared about Google's AI. Now with Grok, they are #1 and #2. Sam Altman is so bad at this. Having said that, I hate all these companies

Comment ID #6807084554 12/09/2025 08:49 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

my thing is with people who defend this. They are either content thieves knowingly backing these AI companies or very ignorant. I think it's the first case for this guy considering he runs an AI company

Comment ID #6807084056 12/09/2025 08:48 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

Don't worry, I'm sure Trump will soon threaten 100% tariffs on them. If he does, I hope the EU extends a middle finger to Trump.

Comment ID #6807077601 12/09/2025 08:32 am

joamuk commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

You've got to love the EU :-) <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl95eg33k1o">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl95eg33k1o</a>

Comment ID #6807076270 12/09/2025 08:28 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

It is kind of amazing to me that a lot of these folks seem to be against AI regulation. I guess they don't care unless their work and livelihood is stolen.. <a href="https://x.com/javilopen/status/1998378147536900224">https://x.com/javilopen/status/1998378147536900224</a>

Comment ID #6807071688 12/09/2025 08:16 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

OpenAI's investment into their investor's private equity firm is telling of the times. These big techies have built their own economy which profits from the massive destruction of wealth of ordinary people/workers. One could say AI is a weapon of mass destruction. <b>OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal</b> - <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/openais-investment-into-thrive-holdings-is-its-latest-circular-deal/">https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/openais-investment-into-thrive-holdings-is-its-latest-circular-deal/</a> <blockquote>OpenAI is taking an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings, whose parent company is one of the AI giant’s major investors, Thrive Capital. Thrive Holdings operates like a private equity firm for AI, rolling up companies that it believes could benefit from the tech in sectors like accounting and IT services. </blockquote>

Comment ID #6807065801 12/09/2025 08:00 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

I blocked China and our revenue was not hit. There are 1000s of Ips hitting my server. I was looking at my AdSense and it was showing crazy views but little money. I realized it was better to just block. SG and HK I have not decided yet. I have blocked 700 problematic blocks from there but if this keeps up, I will block those too. At this point, if I don't earn money from the traffic, I am blocking. I can't work for free.

Comment ID #6807065327 12/09/2025 07:58 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

Licensing is what I am thinking but I think AI overviews will be shut down before long and just a button on the search page. It is not working out for Google. 90% traffic loss for websites is equal loss for Adsense/adx, and ad houses are not going to advertise on AI slop due to higher costs and no ROI. That is my take. How long is google going to go down this road with depreciating returns, the longer the more damage to their monopoly.

Comment ID #6807060133 12/09/2025 07:43 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

I am wondering if to block/ or not to block tbh but they will just use another VPN

Comment ID #6807059793 12/09/2025 07:42 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

I block them because you never know what they may do with ads. They could get your ad account banned for traffic manipulation.

Comment ID #6807059741 12/09/2025 07:42 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

Yes I am seeing Singapore and Chinese as well. Whatever. I am not blocking them can't be doing with it.

Comment ID #6807059561 12/09/2025 07:42 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

I don't disagree. It is a criminal organization.

Comment ID #6807058914 12/09/2025 07:40 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

What Google are doing is against the law and ad revenues are plummeting we are likely to see an AI overviews, AI mode button in January - and for this horrible useless AI to be removed from search. Revenue will force them to remove it. EU is investigating and not happy. As it has not worked out how they saw it.

Comment ID #6807058764 12/09/2025 07:39 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

the compensation needs to be perpetual and not a one time payment. You can't just steal and give people $50 or $100

Comment ID #6807058593 12/09/2025 07:39 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

Hate to say it but seems we are stuck with Google for a long time. They don't care. They will steal content, crush webmasters, steal ideas from competitors and they have god-like money to spend on anything. I never thought OpenAI was the savior but we could end up with an AI market that looks just like search. <a href="https://x.com/business/status/1997675638581240027">https://x.com/business/status/1997675638581240027</a>

Comment ID #6807057587 12/09/2025 07:36 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

The EU have just opened an in investigation of AI overviews about how it is effecting publishers traffic and how the market is unfair due to Googles monopoly. This could result in compensation for European publishers. They don't seem to care about the tariffs too much so good on Europe. They are saying it is effecting free speech and expression of PEOPLE.

Comment ID #6807056775 12/09/2025 07:33 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

I blocked China already. I am this close to blocking all SG IPs. It's nothing personal. We earn no ad or affiliate money from these countries.

Comment ID #6807053514 12/09/2025 07:23 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

I would like to think there are some politicians somewhere in the US that want to do good, but it seems they are all easily corrupted by the almighty dollar. Trump will be 80 next year, and as I've said these people are too old to make policy they can't even begin to comprehend. His One Rule executive order is more heavy handed BS coming out of DC. To create a national AI policy, all stakeholders should be brought in and a bill drafted in Congress like a normal law. This One Rule executive order is full of threats to sue states if they don't fall in line. Many will call this a big gift to big techies and increased weaponization of federal government. If Trump's focus is on the USA winning the AI race, Trump wouldn't have just agreed to to allow Nvidia to sell H200 chips to China for a measly 25% cut. Everywhere we turn we are being gaslit.

Comment ID #6807043187 12/09/2025 06:48 am

Rowan commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

Singapore is one of the countries that hosts many proxy servers and data centers. The country is well known for their blazing fast internet connection. Most hackers or people seeking illegal content would usually use SG-based proxies since it is near all the countries that host shady content. The Chinese from China like to use SG-based proxies to masquerade their identity while scraping your content or attempting brute-force hacking on your websites. Just want to let others know. 90% of the time it isn't real Singaporeans but people using Singapore proxies/datacenters. I know because I once experienced a surge in traffic from "SG" and I did some reading and learnt all that. Also, after the recent Japan-China tensions, the Chinese (or political bots, called wumaos) are very active online, trying to spread misinformation and attempting a hate campaign against the Japanese. That is why most of you are reporting traffic from "Singapore" and China after the Japan-China tensions flared up.

Comment ID #6807042176 12/09/2025 06:44 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

It's shuffling again today but who cares. We get no traffic on the first or 2nd page. haha. It's just all Singapore and Chinese IPs.

Comment ID #6807039980 12/09/2025 06:36 am

Ekees SEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

I know, but is just a reply for everyone that reads it.

Comment ID #6806996295 12/09/2025 02:55 am

Reese williamson commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

Could it be the reason that my average ranking position went from 13 to 19? If we want to decrease it by two or one percentage, it takes around weeks or one month, but in just two nights, my average position dropped to 19, but I couldn't see much difference in impressions. Has anyone else faced the same problem I did?

Comment ID #6806996216 12/09/2025 02:54 am

Dark OG commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

He's a spammer nga.

Comment ID #6806993722 12/09/2025 02:37 am

Ekees SEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

Staying alert it is just an emotional thing really. I do it too, to get peace of mind, which of course it doesn't. It doesnt matter if you look or don't look for a few weeks, if you stay on your strategy. Rankings, traffic impressions are what they are. You are just more and more a guinea pig to the algo, you can be lucky a few weeks and down on your luck months on end. Nothing to do with quality alone

Comment ID #6806993066 12/09/2025 02:32 am

Taryn White commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

😂

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