Welllllll this isn't great.
Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website
"...a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. The user never sees what your team built, they see what Google's machine learning model thinks they should see instead."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website
#SEO #Google #AI #enshittification
friend of ours pointed out that the LLM "new model is so much better" effect is analogous to a Shepard tone — there are differences between each note but the actual net progress sums out to 0
RE: https://muffin.industries/@wayback_exe/116303935513677646
(redraft: wrong sparkles)
CBS basically abandoned search.com in 2016, then the name disappeared in 2024. A bunch of sloperators picked it up last year and turned it into an LLM interface named "SearchGPT."
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SEARCH.COM - NetCast weather forecast
Oct 1996
https://web.archive.org/web/19961027051425/http://www.search.com/Single/0,7,150414,00.html
http://oldweb.today/random/19961027051425/http://www.search.com/Single/0,7,150414,00.html
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/116303061606967397
sam bank fraud man
If you have a chance to read @WeirdWriter you absolutely should.
Malicious compliance has never been so hilariously written.
By page fifty, the machine would be heating up. The smell of hot toner would start to fill the cubicle. The rhythmic chunk-chunk-chunk
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