• Hadouken Shoryuken@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    If I were a content creator, why would I still need to let Google crawl my site. It probably won’t bring any traffic to my site.

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      6 months ago

      Site owners haven’t figured that out yet. They still cling to the notion that search optimization works. And it still does, to some extent.

      Like, if you’re a small business owner providing local services in your city and you get customers that find you through Google, what can you do except continue to optimize for Google?

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        6 months ago

        True. In your example, that makes sense. In cases where like newspaper/ journalism that earns ads revenue when ppl visit their articles, they will eventually lose those ads revenue when Gemini answers everything. But as u said, if they don’t let google to crawl, they lose ads revenue now. Tough choice.