Remember when all our problems could be fixed with notepad and an .ini file?

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I was trying to get the "preferred sources" features but I found only this. Is this new Barry Schwartz ? The UX feels broken too me.

Matthew Prince shared these stats: 📊 10 years ago: Google crawled 2 pages per visitor 📊 6 months ago: Google 6:1, OpenAI 250:1, Anthropic 6,000:1 📊 Now: Google 18:1, OpenAI 1,500:1, Anthropic 60,000:1

a bit strange to see Google News listed there. As if Google News is recognized as a news publisher itself.

.Google Search Central just enabled the new "Insights" tab for me. Fascinating how little helpful this is for news publishers since all "trending up" articles are new articles and everything "trending down" are old ones.

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Google hates web publishers, they see themselves as the publisher via theft now. Cancel their Section 230 protections asap.

Proof that ChatGPT Plus is secretly Google-powered - “hidden page” experiment 1. I coined a nonsense word. 2. I then put it on a page not linked anywhere. 3. Forced Google to index it via Search Console; left all other engines unaware. 4. Asked ChatGPT Plus to define the term →

How do I turn of the auto-translated voiceover (english -> german)? They are really bad quality. YouTube Liaison

I wonder if Google went from being a search engine to being a publisher. And that is why there is no need for a Google SearchLiaison anymore.

40 years of Phrack

Just updated data in light of eye-popping acceleration of 'zero-click' searches as Google's AI Overview scheme captures web traffic. I've been watching G's ad revenue mix shift from network (publishers) to its own properties for over a decade. It just hit 90% for first time. 1/2

ChatGPT 4o tells me since I am neither a free user nor a Pro user (I am "only" a paying Plus user) I will have to wait for access. I have to say I am disappointed.

WOW, there's a LOT of interest in the API 🤩 We're now looking through the applications and selecting the first batch of participants. We'll start onboarding around mid-September, but we'll start very small, so if you don't get an email from us, it might take a few more months.

Well there you have it... It's SerpApi. Note, Perplexity is also a customer of theirs -> Sources: OpenAI has been partially using Google search results scraped by a startup called SerpApi for ChatGPT responses on current events like news and sports "OpenAI is getting the data

Seeing Google Discover replacing site name with author name... But I think this is in prep for showing both site name and author name? First screenshot discover, Second, chrome feed cc Lily Ray 😏

GSC is currently missing hourly data inbetween "2025-09-02T11:00:00-07:00" and "2025-09-03T00:00:00-07:00" Google Search Central Daniel Waisberg

Google claims, in court no less, the open web is dying

lol