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Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth. (www.seroundtable.com)
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[–] Obelix@feddit.org 148 points 6 months ago (13 children)

If you think about it:

  1. Reddit gives Google access to everything so that Google can train their AI
  2. Google is now showing AI generated snippets on every search page and is pushing its own AI chatbot everywhere
  3. Users are getting the answer they want from those AI generated answers Google generated from Reddit comments
  4. Traffic to Reddit is collapsing

In the meantime, spez totally trashed his site, destroyed valuable communities and pushed away the mods that keep the place clean. Really, really great business strategy there.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Reddit gives Google access to everything so that Google can train their AI

Reddit sold access. For short term gains. Because the quarter needed more money to beat the previous quarter.

If this isn't a leopard eating their face moment, I don't know what is.

[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

anyone with a tenth of a percentage of business sense could tell you a business that produces nothing but eyeballs to advertisers will be a massive failure if said business does anything to piss the owners of said eyeballs off.

and experts are confused why traded-on-the-markets social media companies are in freefall.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Except this isn't 100% true.

  • Google continues to add more ads per page, despite people complaining
  • Netflix now has ads even in paid tiers. Their subscribers count grew
  • YouTube continues to push ads even to the point of aggressive blocking ad blockers

There isn't a single platform that has reduced the number of ads it serves.

Businesses have learned that the majority of users will take it.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

All of those platforms have sources of revenue besides ads.

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