Google’s AI-generated search answers have reportedly not been good for independent websites.
Those answers, along with Google’s alterations to its search algorithm in support of them, have caused traffic to those websites to plunge, Bloomberg News reported Monday (April 7), citing interviews with 25 publishers and people working with them.
The changes, Bloomberg said, threaten a “delicate symbiotic relationship” between businesses and Google: they generate good content,…
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