On one of my sites I received a million requests from Googlebot before lunchtime today. Those requests were spread over hundreds of IPs. I get similar traffic from them and other hyper scalers daily. I'm just one guy. I don't have load balancers and endless engineering budget. I'm sick of this.
Surely if you're dependent on search, you don't HAVE organic business no matter that they call it organic search traffic? "that thing I get from whosit but I don't recall them yea them" is kind of always going to be very variable.
That said a colleague said when his brother-in-law stopped paying for placement his printer/toner supply business tanked, despite him believing they knew who he was. Nobody knows anyone.
On one of my sites I received a million requests from Googlebot before lunchtime today. Those requests were spread over hundreds of IPs. I get similar traffic from them and other hyper scalers daily. I'm just one guy. I don't have load balancers and endless engineering budget. I'm sick of this.
Do they not respect the crawl-delay directive in robots.txt?
Maybe Google doesn't want people to reach businesses from search results and they want businesses to pay for ads so people can reach them.
Maybe?
Search hasn't been search for a long time. It's been a dynamic feed masquerading as search results.
Surely if you're dependent on search, you don't HAVE organic business no matter that they call it organic search traffic? "that thing I get from whosit but I don't recall them yea them" is kind of always going to be very variable.
That said a colleague said when his brother-in-law stopped paying for placement his printer/toner supply business tanked, despite him believing they knew who he was. Nobody knows anyone.
If you can afford it, please try kagi[0]. It's not a panacea. It IS a lot better than Google and has been for some time.
[0] https://kagi.com/welcome
Speaking of which, they're just no better.
https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
There's a postmortem update at the end of this post.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314
The search is better. That is what I pay for. And the summarization is actually quite useful.
Everyone is complaining about Google since years ago. But no one has built a good alternative. Is it a bad business idea?
Good alternatives exist, like Yandex. But it's close to impossible to compete with google's resources and platform lock in Android and chrome.
Machine learning is by definition a black box. Nonlinear statistical models with huge numbers of parameters to be estimated.
Not all machine learning. Neural networks.
Explainability towards users is essential if there is any sort of responsibility for what the model produces.
But explainability at a deeper level is also critical towards developers, to close the feedback loop and iterate towards better models.
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At some point, their business model being replicable, they plant the seeds for their own future compeition.
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