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   Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 23:24:40 JST Tim Chambers

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   All the more need for the open social web, & discovery services like @Flipboard & @surf --

   "The number of sessions resulting from Google Search traffic has declined to 28% from 52%...The decline has prompted People Inc. to internally use the term 'Google Zero.' ...'OK, we need to aggregate audience from as many sources as possible, ...What happens if Google goes to zero? What happens if Google no longer sends us traffic?'"

   https://seekingalpha.com/news/4483889-companies-find-new-avenues-to-drive-up-sessions-as-googles-ai-search-tools-reduce-web-traffic

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     Bernie the Wordsmith (berniethewordsmith@neopaquita.es)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 05:21:26 JST Bernie the Wordsmith

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     @tchambers @Flipboard @surf I have been telling this to folks in LinkedIn: mass media will need to join the effort on educating their users about free and federated alternatives. If they want to keep their readers, that is

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     Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 12:11:12 JST Urban Hermit

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     @tchambers @Flipboard @surf

     Okay..., so we have already passed peak Google Search?

     All those companies that kept optimizing their pages, SEO, to rank higher in search results are now freaking out because sometimes people will just settle for AI telling them a quick answer. And that AI read their page once 2 years ago and isn't going back unless prompted to?

     I think recommended links from friends on social media just leaped up in relevance by 200%.