Google Algorithm Updates - 2024 Ongoing Discussion

secretagentdad said:
The debate kids with 4.0s wanna feel smart and feed their egos.
Not work a job. lol.

What was the point of jumping through all the groomers hoops if you gotta office to slave like the rest of us,
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Damn. good clip. He said there'll be an AI bubble and it'll burst. Better make your AI startup now, cash in on VC cash when you can, and hope that it suffices for you to get a hold in whatever market you're competing in!
 
If you want to know where people are heading, follow the money.

By this, I mean ad money.

Yes, it is true some people flock where there isn't an ad platform yet ( new trends that haven't implemented a paid ad setup yet ), but look at where ad money is going.

A lot of you will scream out, Google and Meta bring in the most.

That's not what I said, look at where it is going... moving, shifting, growing.

And I can tell you a big chunk is still flowing to and moving to TikTok. There is still a lot moving to Meta too.

It isn't moving to Google. It isn't new money flowing into Google.

How do I know?

I buy ads everywhere online. I see data in reports from these ad platforms. I invest in what I can and I see these companies ad earnings. Several tools that integrate with multiple ad platforms ( like NorthBeam ) will give you ad data of their users and where they are shifting their money.

As a side note to this, I do feel people are tired of the fuckery with ads and popups and more. Like @CCarter said:
CCarter said:
Even this next generation is Tiktoking stuff that previous generations Googled. They don't give a fucking about the old guard - they want answered from a source they understand - short term video.
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CCarter said:
- and having to waddle through pop-up ADs, display ADs, interstitial ADs, and even more.
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I recently cancelled my YouTube Premium sub to find more ads on a competitor and guess what I realized.

YouTube fucking sucks ass as a "normal" free user. For years I didn't realize this. YouTube was my favorite "ask a question" channel but that was because I was paying to see no ads.

Remove the paid sub and now I gotta watch 2 ads before the video starts? I gotta watch another ad in the middle or 1/3 through the video? I gotta watch another one if I skip 4 minutes ahead to the part I wanna see?

WTF

Same on the Google search engine, or the SEO'd page I click on to from Google.

Instagram ( Meta ) doesn't have this problem.

TikTok doesn't have this problem.

I can scroll right on past the ads, and it isn't a ton like it is on YouTube.

Radio is horrible also. I never listen to the damn Radio anymore. TV ads are horrible too, I don't watch TV anymore. Google and YouTube are horrible, guess what I hardly Google or YouTube anymore now unless it's me buying something ( looking up part numbers ) or me wanting to find out how to get the damn ABS wheels sensor off the left rear wheel of my 4Runner.

Otherwise, it's TikTok.

Otherwise, it's Reddit

Otherwise, it somewhere where Im not seeing a ton of ads and BS and having to pay for a better experience just to get data.

But guess where I can get that data also? ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, MSN CoPilot, Meta Ai, Qwen, Llama, etc.

I'm pretty sure these Ai platform will introduce ads too, when they do I will be right there buying them up.

I know Ford recently released a patent to show ads in the infotainment console of your car, but I think that's gonna be dogshit.

Follow the money. Learn how to follow the money. Put your time there where it is heading.

Wayne Gretzky - Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been
 
Yes, good point, ads are not forever. People are tired of ads and with the whole indie hacking movement, there is also a supply side movement towards just charging people for services, instead of ads.

I look at myself and I am actually now paying a lot more people instead of ads. I pay people on Patreon, I pay them on Substack, I could pay for Medium subscriptions, I pay Premium on X to avoid ads (which in turn puts money in creator's pockets there).

It does seem as if the internet is maturing and moving away from ads and towards pay as you go. People are more willing to pay now that it also coincides with the death of trust in mainstream media and the lack of creativity in Hollywood etc.

Incidentally, blogging is actually have a resurgence again with Substack and X.
 
bernard said:
Eric Schmidt is a spook though, has some deep CIA connections, Julian Assange has written about it. Eric Schmidt is in many ways probably the reason Google is in its current predicament. It's more than suggested by Assange that he sold out to intelligence agencies and allowed them to use Google for their purposes.
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