Data gathered by Chartbeat and shared by Axios reveals that, over the past year, Google Search traffic to publishers across the broader web have fallen drastically, and proportionally more so for smaller websites. Referral traffic from Google apparently fell by 60% for “small publishers,” while “medium publishers” (those with between 10,000-100,000 daily pageviews) saw a drop of 47%. “Large publishers,” meanwhile, saw a 22% drop. That last category would be any site getting over 100,000 daily pageviews.
It’s not just Google Search either. While Search traffic dropped by 34%, traffic from Google Discover has also fallen by 15% over the past year, the report found.
So what the new business model is?
When creators go out of business and there’s nothing to steal, how will this business continue?
They can’t see past their next set of financial statements. And the government wants those content creators to fail so they can control all information.
Yes. Also combined with:
But you see, for a brief moment, we made the shareholders very rich, and that was a beautiful moment totally worth everything.
well of course
and once the shareholders have all the wealth, everyone else can… Thunderdome? If they’re not shareholders then they don’t matter.
Idk how it looks like in other fields, but AI tools give so huge boost to Senior Software Engineers, that I think I will be unemployed soon.
The question is who will be buying goods, if everyone will be broke
Advertising obviously. /s