Reddit (and everyone else) faces a bleak internet without Google traffic

Started by rcjordan, November 01, 2026, 02:41:44 AM

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Drastic

I have to say, though, the gemini results in search make tech research much more efficient for some things.

Building a new pc, to find incompatibilities between various parts used to mean scouring forums and many searches taking some time. Now that just takes a quick convo. The caveat is it still hallucinates, by usually giving conflicting info in a convo. Easy to catch if you're doing this in depth but not from a quick answer.

ergophobe

More and more the AI summary is better than any of the top pages.

My CTR has plummeted

Slight problem currently: it's in Turkish, even when i manually request English