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For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline” (with regard to advertising, kinda-sorta)

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[–] netuno@lemmy.cif.su 24 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

The problem for years has been good stuff being drowned in slop.

It's not going to be fixed.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

One of my most unfortunate thoughts is that people were as excited about radio and television before they were centralized.

Once we lost synchronous internet connection the internet started evolving.

Content currated by our betters to help us fulfill their lives.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

Capitalism has distilled its parasitic behaviour down to a science to suck the life out of anything that dare to stand out, and leave its corpse dry, for the sake of more profits.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 5 points 4 hours ago

Ever since search engine “optimization” became a thing — which was not long after the Internet was opened to the public in the ‘90s.