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Traffic / Re: How to block Google's annoying AI overviews and just get search results
« Last post by Brad on Today at 09:01:33 AM »
Good article but lots of steps in there.  For the unwashed masses who don't even know how to change the default search engine this is too involved.

There have always been 3 strategies for taking down Google:

1. Build a better search engine than Google.
2. Wait for Google to stumble, badly.
3. Gov't anti-trust regulation.

This blind leap into AI search might be #2 Google's Big Stumble, if people get tired of drinking their own urine which might be a longshot after Tide pods.  And #3 might happen.  So what I'm saying is we might have a convergence of #2 and #3 happening. 
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Water Cooler / Go to your corners, may the best man win..
« Last post by Rupert on Today at 06:39:29 AM »
Just had this email from the Guardian.  I have donated occasionally, so I get emails:

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Dear supporter,

On Tuesday, Elon Musk, owner of X/Twitter, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and one of the richest men on the planet, posted the following message about the Guardian.
The Guardian


The Guardian is sceptical of plutocrats and entrenched power. From Musk to the Murdochs, a small number of wealthy people have a powerful hold on much of the world’s information – and what they spread can often be distorting and destructive.

We are different: with no super-rich owner, the Guardian is free to seek the truth and share important stories that people ought to know – and free to care less what Musk or any billionaire thinks of us.
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Traffic / AI-infused search: News publishers sound alarm, warn of ‘catastrophic’ impacts
« Last post by rcjordan on Today at 02:57:46 AM »
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/media/google-gemini-ai-search-news-outlet-impact/index.html

Debbie: Yup, another nail in the coffin.

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Traffic / How to block Google's annoying AI overviews and just get search results
« Last post by rcjordan on Today at 12:59:01 AM »
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/google-chrome/bye-bye-ai-how-to-block-googles-annoying-ai-overviews-and-just-get-search-results

Bye Bye, AI:  | Tom's Hardware
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Monetization / Re: Ri$ky click: Temu
« Last post by rcjordan on Today at 12:05:52 AM »
https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1ctimva/a_regular_work_day_at_the_temu_warehouse/

A regular work day at the Temu warehouse
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Traffic / Re: A quarter of US adults under 30 now get their news from TikTok
« Last post by buckworks on May 16, 2024, 02:12:54 AM »
<warp>

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/what-tiktok-got-wrong-about-america/
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Economics & Investing / Re: Home insurers cut natural disasters from policies over climate risk - WP
« Last post by ergophobe on May 16, 2024, 12:43:29 AM »
PS, that image is from the newsletter. The main source is

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/13/climate/insurance-homes-climate-change-weather.html
As Insurers Around the U.S. Bleed Cash From Climate Shocks, Homeowners Lose
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Economics & Investing / Re: Home insurers cut natural disasters from policies over climate risk - WP
« Last post by ergophobe on May 16, 2024, 12:42:00 AM »
Via NYT

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Marketing / Re: FCC: BIG changes for US Lead Generation sites.
« Last post by ergophobe on May 15, 2024, 09:47:52 PM »
This is actually a Google Voice number.

One issue is that we gave up two GV numbers that were business numbers. It wasn't worth having them anymore. Those were set to never ring 8pm to 8am.

Unfortunately, Google Voice doesn't have a feature to send all calls to voicemail unless they're in your contacts. What you can do is set calendar settings for most times to be Do Not Disturb and then set a custom forwarding rule to forward calls in your contacts to the phones you want to ring, but I'm not seeming to get that to work.

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Economics & Investing / Re: >8 billion people, 6 billion jobs.
« Last post by Adam C on May 15, 2024, 08:14:47 AM »
https://www.businessinsider.com/indeed-layoffs-ceo-chris-hyams-memo-2024-5

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The careers site Indeed says it will lay off about 1,000 employees — about 8% of its workforce — as it looks to simplify its organization.

In a memo released publicly on Monday, CEO Chris Hyams took responsibility for "how we got here," adding that the company is not yet set up for growth after last year's global slowdown in hiring caused multiple quarters of declining sales.

Unlike last year's across-the-board reduction of 2,200 workers, Hyams said the latest cuts will be more concentrated in the US and primarily affect the research-and-development and go-to-market teams.

The decision is also aimed at reducing "too many organizational layers" at the company. That echoes Mark Zuckerberg's move last year, in which the CEO said that he sought to "flatten" Meta's organizational chart.
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