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The Great Decoupling (Or Why Your Clicks Are Down and Impressions Up)

https://ahrefs.com/blog/the-great-decoupling/
23•duck•7mo ago

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LordShredda•7mo ago
I have ahrefs blocked from accessing my webserver as they don't consistently respect robots.txt. I suggest everyone do the same.
xnx•7mo ago
Agree. Ahrefs is part of the seo garbage industrial complex.
bediger4000•7mo ago
I have them blocked as well. Solidarity.
jaoane•7mo ago
> Searchers can get all the information they need to resolve their query without leaving the search results page.

The best thing Google has done in the last decade easily.

add-sub-mul-div•7mo ago
There could not be a worse idea than to put all trust in one institution, even if its reputation was still clean.

Google has continally abused trust on ethics and on accuracy.

Yes, it would be nice if there was a button you could push to ask any question and get a simple answer. No, we are not there yet. No, there are no shortcuts in life. You have to go to a source and evaluate its information and its trustworthiness in its own context otherwise you are not meeting your responsibility of diligence.

southernplaces7•7mo ago
>even if its reputation was still clean.

That's a good laugh...

jaoane•7mo ago
For most queries the AI summary works. If it doesn’t, oh well.

Yesterday I looked up how much a certain car weighs. The AI summary gave me an answer. It may be the wrong one, but I looked it up out of curiosity, so it doesn’t ultimately matter.

jxjnskkzxxhx•7mo ago
> It may be the wrong one, but I looked it up out of curiosity, so it doesn’t ultimately matter.

Now this has to be the most surprising thing I've read this week, until I thought about it for long.

It doesn't matter if it's correct because you googled it out of curiosity? I think you might be confused. When you're curious, you want the answer to be correct (there's related questions that are raised and consistency checks that a curious person does in their mind.) I think what you are is addicted to the internet. You searched something because that's you brain's kneejerk reaction to whatever the trigger was in this case. The act of searching is what your brain was looking for, not the actual information.

nicoburns•7mo ago
Its accuracy is around 50% for queries I do, which is low enough that I actually consider it a negative to my experience using Google, and has made me think about looking for a different search engine for the first time.
pupppet•7mo ago
I disagree, it's a short-sighted decision. We want our sites to be visited, they've disincentivize users from adding new content.
nicbou•7mo ago
I am facing this problem. It’s devastating to think that my job is now to prepare LLM training data. I am still doing useful work translating the real world into useful guides, just with half the audience and half the pay. If the trend continues, I will need to stop doing this full time.

Google and other AI companies effectively killed the incentive to share text on the internet. With it dies an important chunk of the independent web.

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