Well the internet had a good run up to about 2008
The zero click searches just haven’t been monetized yet. Don’t worry they are working on it
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Google is in an interesting predicament. Their ad service brings in so much revenue, but it’s based on search sending traffic to places where those ads are consumed.
Boost search through Overviews and you’re limiting the effectiveness and reach of your ad service. And to top it off, your search needs content to ingest and remain relevant. But if the ad revenue drops off to websites, they go out of business, so search has less stuff to ingest.
It’s like a reverse flywheel, where each part is working to harm the other part. People have been pointing this out for the last couple of years, but Google search just keeps adding more to Overviews and choking off the flow.
And before you say “good, I hate ads,” most of the internet today and its services are paid by ad revenue changing hands. That includes ISPs that host the Fediverse, networking and storage gear makers, pretty much everything to do with open source, and so many jobs that exist to keep the whole thing humming so we can enjoy cat memes.
If Google (or someone like Cloudflare) doesn’t figure out a way to keep the money flowing, we may be watching a sea shift in how the internet has worked in the last 30 years.
Maybe it’s a good thing if the Internet eats itself.
If only we can somehow figure out how to bring back something like the web of the ’90s
YouTubers are doing webrings again, I shit you not. I love it.
Ok that’s cool
It mostly still exists, you just arent interacting with it.
Federation, mostly. Places like Lemmy and Mastodon aren’t obsessed with optimizing ad spend, so there’s a lot less incentive to enshittify.
I have high hopes
Good?
Not that I want more AI, but killing the internets business model can only be good for the future of the internet imo.
Get a real job.
Go back to watching Fox News, boomer.
Since when have CEOs ever done any real work?
Dinghy exactly. The CEO is whining about something nobody wanted, that’s maybe going to go away, and someone gets upset at you saying so? Makes no sense
