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Google keeps scaling back AI search results, new study finds

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Google's AI Overviews gives an auto-generated summary of search results.

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Sometimes to save the internet, you must eat glue

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Adding glue to pizza sauce helps the cheese not slide off, Google AI had said. Now, the company is pulling back on its AI answers — and I can't help but feel like I should take some of the credit.

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Top websites block Google from training AI models on their data. Nowhere near as much as OpenAI, though.

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Sundar Pichai on stage at Google IO 2023

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Google Says It’s Purging All the AI Trash Littering Its Search Results

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Google says it will begin cracking down on AI-generated content created solely for the purpose of gaming its systems and ranking high in Google Search—a change that could potentially have a ripple effect on the quality of what we see online.

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The Super Bowl is still definitely happening at 6:30 ET — and we're still writing these stories?

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San Francisco 49ers fans cheer during Super Bowl LVIII Opening Night at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 5, 2024

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Google is getting worse as it loses its fight against search engine spam

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Google Search is the world's most popular search engine. But researchers say it's not as good as it used to be.

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Inside the first 'SEO heist' of the AI era

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A shadowy firm ripped off dozens of media websites to prop up NFT projects, Amazon hustlers, and a convicted tax cheat

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Three logo: Rolling Stone, MarketWatch, and New York Post are arranged vertically on a gray-purple background. The image is slowly erased to reveal three other knockoff logos underneath: Music Observer, Market Daily and Entertainment Post, all set upon a light blue background.

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A simple way to fix search: Bright pink ads

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The SEO world is up in arms after a story said they're 'ruining the internet.' Here's the spicy drama.

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Did SEO practitioners ruin the internet? A story in The Verge has some SEO'ers up in arms after a spicy headline suggested they might be responsible for an increasingly poor Google Search experience.

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