Google is changing up search. What does that mean for news publishers?
Google is changing up search. What does that mean for news publishers?
A shift to AI-generated search results will decrease the traffic that Google sends to publishers' sites, as more people get what they need straight from the Google search page instead.
So, similar to how you can get a part of the wikipedia page when looking for the definition of a word, you will get an AI-generated synopsis of a search result in addition to the links to the stories. We, though, will still post links to the actual articles.
Canada just passed legislation forcing Google and face book to pays for each showing (or redirecting?) of a Canadian news url. The law aims at redistributing money from internet giants back to news sites. Google and Facebook are threatening to just outright stop including Canadian news URL.
It's a bold move from the government, I'm not for how I feel about it.
I hope other countries follow. Google and especially Bing with chatgpt are stealing a lot right now
Apparently, from articles I read about the Canadian law, Australia tried something similar but fang got it reversed.
The problem is that Canada is a small market. FANG doesn't need the revenue from it but they would hate for these laws to become popular so they'll try to make an example out of Canada.
Either way you should use a private-conscious search engine. Just a couple months ago google was involving itself in Brazilian politics to shield themselves from a left-wing law, I wonder how many millions went into our right-wing politician hands...
I've been giving Bing a try, and their integration with GPT4 is pretty great as long as you're aware that it's not always entirely accurate.
I searched for an error code in Python and it returned an explanation of the error and the most common fixes, in plain text. With links to the stack overflow pages where those fixes were from.