Google’s Unfair Practices Are Crushing Wealth of Geeks & Other Small Publishers

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Recent Google updates have significantly impacted site traffic and visibility, particularly hurting niche sites and content creators 📉

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OMG - Someone hit by #HCU considering Suicide on Reddit!!!??

reddit.com/r/SEO/comments…

This is why you don’t laugh or mock people who have had their websites decimated with recent Google updates that no one can make sense of.

It impacts real people with real families.

Should this person have diversified traffic better? Sure. But SEO completely changed in about…

'I Can't Believe I Might Win This Thing!!'

Well, she did indeed win!

Congrats to Victoria Cornell for winning the 'build a new SEO Site Using AI Content Challenge!'

I just finished my complete writeup of the final results and journey along the way.

I'd love it if you…

Google responds to nilay patel
best printer article where he mocks Google's search rankings with AI-generated content - @johnmu says 'People seem to really enjoy it' - yep it ranks #2 for me seroundtable.com/google-respond…

Google is so unbelievably broken in favor of big sites and forums. Even with exact match headline search this news story's original source is buried At number 80.

70 pages of irrelevant results for completely different topics. top #1 result? Same site shared on a forum.

DISILLUSIONED BUSINESSES DISCOVERING THAT AI KIND OF SUCKS

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Continuity is important and retcons can be frustrating, but lore changes do not always 'ruin' our favorite media, and it is NEVER an excuse to bombard creatives with threats and hate speech. I'm not sure when or how this ever became normalized.

#ZNation
#ZNation fans

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The “for kids” filter and of course Forbes (!) ranking #1 😂

Ok, this has just gotten dangerous now, Danny Sullivan. The fact 'For Kids' is being shown as a filter for the search term 'best cbd gummies' shows how broken the system is. Not only is it illegal to show CBD to kids, but it is harmful and the FTC should investigate. Lily Ray 😏

Bing is above 11% market share in the US for the first time ever. 😳

At the same time, Chrome is below 80% for the first time since April 2015.

My theory is that people have been unhappy with Google results lately and also like Bing's free Copilot with GPT-4.

So, please…

If Google doesn't fire their CEO very soon Google is going to be on a long downward slope next year..

Now they're charging, nickel and diming people, for security? That is not a good look.

Wow.

WOW! I Honestly Thought This Was An Onion Article At First, But Nah Its Real.

Google Is Launching A Paid Version Of Chrome That Gives Users Extra Security Against Malware And Phishing.

This Is Bad. They Basically Saying Sorry We Wont Stop Scammers Now Unless You Pay For A…

Duckduckgo is now the default search engine on my browser because, well, I need a functioning search engine to access the internet

Looks like I'm not the only one who made the change

(Unpopular?) opinion... 🤔
Bing is now a much better search engine than Google.

From personal experience, it finds what I want and suggests properly helpful forum threads without the insane Reddit and big-hitter published bias.

So much so, I'm considering switching my default…

I analysed the top-ranking sites for 1,000 health symptom keywords — many covering serious concerns.

The most prominent domain Google ranks is Mayoclinic.

The second most prominent is Quora, where it's easy to find spammed, copied or AI-generated medical advice.

For instance,…

I just had a first hand experience as to why Google recently 'deindexing' a lot of sites was a bad move in my opinion.

I was watching the latest Spencer Haws video with Michael Dinich talking about Flipboard and Wealth of Geeks.

Naturally I went and Googled Wealth of Geeks to…