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Posted on 09/01/2025 1:41:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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If anyone knows differently please let me know. But Search Engines today seem to have about 40% of the value they used to have. Does anyone know of one that actually allows you to search?
You are going to have to pay for service now.
Oh absolutely believe it. No different than a DDoS attack... In fact a friend is battling it right now... It is getting hammered so fast and so much the security will not let it stay up for safety reasons... It is useless because of the massive amount of hits all at once...
Which ones do you pay for?
The bots will scream at each other while we watch cat videos. The internet will ultimately consume itself and we will be done with it. I’ll miss y’all, but I think it’s doing more harm than good.
If you pay for a search engine, they will be tracking you a lot more.
A true AI, “hungry for any and all content” would quickly ferret out the Globull Climate Hoax.
Whatever they are labeling AI today, it is programmed, and the programmer(s) are human.
HIGHLY recommend: The Myth of Artificial Intelligence by someone on the ground floor, Erik J. Larson
I know that seems counter intuitive but they already are getting paid, by you. You just choose one that agrees not to track you and erases your data at the end of the session.
When you use the free ones they have a vested interest in sucking every bit of money they can out of selling their information on you to every buyer they can find.
If you can not tell what is being sold, you are the product.
“ Anyone who runs a website, though, knows there’s a huge, honking difference between the old-style crawlers and today’s AI crawlers. The new ones are site killers.”
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Kind of like incessant ZEEPER posters.
Fine. I hope AI likes clickbait.
[Oh absolutely believe it. No different than a DDoS attack... In fact a friend is battling it right now...]
That sounds correct...
“Free search engines are a thing of the past.”
GEMINI:
No, many free search engines exist, including DuckDuckGo, Brave, and Startpage. Some, like Kagi, offer paid versions.
People should put fake crap and lies out. Confuse it like Norman in the Star Trek OS episode “I Mudd”.
You ask it to show an elephant and it might come back with a giraffe!
Next up - Bot Blockers. “Nive website you got here; be a shame if anything happened to it.”
Gonna need a biologist to figure out all this.
Dittos - I’ve had to shut down a semi-dormant site that had many years of content in forum structures. These AI bots slam servers, offer nothing of value to the resource owners.
Simply put, they steal content and offer no useful purpose in return. This will kill the internet as a resource, and make it just another way to control and tax information.
Even the Cloudflare solutions are limited, but it’s a start - truly amazing to see where the Cloudflare interstitial screens are showing up.
Good opportunity for some clever computer engineers to make The Next Big Thing - something that can control AI and it’s amoral actions.
AND they are making it miserable for us real people too.
I’d say that 20% of the sites I try to visit, (and increasing daily) for research, entertainment or commerce have some sort of ‘bot’ filter. that want me to ‘verify that I am human’, turn off my VPN, lower my ‘shields’, and let THEM run THEIR spybots on my computer.
Unless it is something really important, I just move on to the next site that offers what I’m looking for without the verification page.
I’d estimate that the ‘prove you are human’ website sentries have cost various online sellers a thousand dollars of my money not being spent with them, and who knows how many dollars of ad money the information / entertainment websites have lost because I didn’t click through all their nonsense.
And my tin-hated alter ego says this is just one giant step along the path to being required to have a Digital ID and a social credit score to use the internet at all, and not really that AI is costing website owners millions of dollars.
A normal webcrawler only hits sites a few times a week... This AI in overwhelming the system bad... and the only way to keep it out is to shut off all your SEO bot access which is not at all good for business.
This needs to stop... It is destroying the internet...
Yes, see #19...
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