2005 called - it wants it's flame back. SEO don't enter into the equation at all - if anything, SEO/PPC/AIO has been keeping Google out of the dumpster for ages. By you own points:

• "useless Reddit posts," "SEO AI Slop sites" "useless crap" Seriously, cut "seos" some slack here. None of the "black hat" stuff works on Google. they are quite good at getting rid of the junk sites from serps.

  The problem with Google - IS GOOGLE. The constant spamming of ads (that studies show 30% of the people that click on google ads, don't know they just clicked on an ad), That's a MAJOR PROBLEM - a much bigger problem search usability than value of the results.

  Lets give credit to google for trying to play their quality problem on the internet. The only one operating in bad faith in the search sector is Google.

Sat down at 6am yesterday with a huge plate of 'one offs' and realized my old spreadsheet "todo" tracker wasn't cutting it any more. So I sat and explained to an LLM what I wanted in a todo program, and had it go back and for with me to refine a prompt to build one from scratch in VB.net .net 10. In under an hour I had a prototype - In under two hours I'd refined it to add a multitude of features. At 9am I called it good. It is a full desktop app is commercial grade that runs out of my shared drive and still uses a spreadsheet format so that my phone/tablet still can mess with the data too.

I've done that a dozen times in the last six months. I have a pile of these little utilities that take a mess of old "make it work" (like using excel for a todo tracker) utilities and streamlined my workflow. In one case, I have replaced my 4 day end of month marathon of reports into two hours - all because of one-off utilities.

I try not to over due it because I know an LLM is probably going to be able to do the entire system better and faster than I can within a short time. Example, built a 'connector' that took gsc, screamingfrog, semrush, and other services and mashed them together for a 'dashboard' analysis of our marketing. It to a couple weeks write an get right. Claude introduced dashboards this week and completely blows away what we did in house.

I met him in circa 2003 when he sent CBS to my office unannounced to interview me about Google Bot (it ended up in The Google Guys special on cbs). I met him again when he keynoted Pubcon Las Vegas. He was extremely kind to me and my family - even took time to go out of his way to meet my mom & dad who just happened to be in the hotel lobby at the same time.

His story about getting fired from Apple is legendary. They would send an email and then delete it - which would still delete it off the end users box. So they'd play a game of "nasty email", and see who had the guts a) to send it to their boss and b) who would let it set there and risk the boss reading it!

Went looking for just Euro engines. There are a few out there: https://www.searchengineworld....

Yep - AIO is the biggest degrade in the history of search - just filthy stupid. I've been changing to Claude and Chatgpt almost exclusively for search. *uck Google.

So I can't block "YouTube", nor the evil "X", or the pool-of-cess known as "reddit"? What about the dozen or so publishers that gladly sell links and call them "partners"? and on and on and on.

One mans feature, is just another mans PR stunt. This action by Google is the later.

What's the alternative? Glue on pizza? https://dailydot.com/google-se...

https://datatracker.ietf.org/d...

rfc 9309 was formally standardized and published in Sept of 2022.

There was not a SINGLE story I can find that was written about it at that time.

Field vs Google: Yes it was used, but it was a fairly niche ruling. It was not a ruling that every missing robots.txt file grants unlimited permission to scrape. From what (IANAL) i understand, the result rested on unusually very specific facts: Field understood Google’s system, intentionally allowed caching and later tried to sue over the predictable result.

One of the more interesting bits in the standard is that RFC 9309 itself says robots.txt rules “are not a form of access authorization."

And robots.txt was never a standard until late last year. No lawsuit in almost 30 years of internet was able to use robots.txt as evidence. (until last year. The really really interesting thing, is that it was Google engineers that pushe for it hmmm) https://www.searchengineworld....

And when you convert them out of stock ai illustrator files - you always lose info - which later causes incompatibilities. I have worked in it from the beginning. The only way to ensure compatibility is via illustrator .ai files.

as if there are not 50 other major software/services that do the same. Ever try to share an Illustrator file?

Rare is the day Apple trots out the legal team. I wonder if this is all those Google billions coming home to roost? Smells like a proxy war Apple is fighting for Google. Apple hasn't even fielded a competitor and is dead last in the big AI horse race - they couldn't give a *hit about OpenAI playing with hardware. We have to ask how Apple knows so much about what went on in confidential job interviews? How is it Apple knows lines were crossed - did they cross some this selves? Sounds sus that Apple would have so much info without sending in double agents itself? Seems like OpenAI has an opening to respond in kind.

Google users have been complaining for a few years of CFS (Can't Find Sh*t) since the AI take over. Of course "search" is at a an all time high - it now take 3 searches to get what you used to get in 1.

1000 CD's - so that holds like what - 20% of WIn11?

GLP1's are the Wonderdrug of the century:

While clearly awesome for weight loss, much of the "beyond" benefit is still being untangled as either a direct drug effect versus downstream consequence of the weight loss and metabolic improvement itself. Many clinicians describe seeing improvement across cardiovascular and metabolic comorbidities "probably due to both weight loss and direct effect of the medication. Most of the newer findings are associational, not proven cause-and-effect.

• Slowing Biological Aging: A landmark June 2026 study published by the U of Cali found that semaglutide slowed the pace of biological aging by roughly 9%. This is driven by reductions in chronic immune activation and metabolic stress
• Type 2 Diabetes - a 2% A1C reduction and 16.8% weight loss.
• Liver: Semaglutide outperformed placebo in treating advanced fatty liver disease (MASH/MASLD) in a trial
• Cardiovascular Health - cardioprotective effects independent of weight loss,
• Improved cholesterol, blood pressure, and inflammation metrics
• Brain Health - Neuroprotection: Animal studies suggest semaglutide may counteract memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease by reducing brain inflammatio
• Pain & Motivation: A mouse study showed GLP-1s can ease pain and reduce the motivation to exercise (studies underway)
• Addiction: Early studies suggest GLP-1s may help reduce cravings for substances like alcohol and nicotine
• Sleep Apnea: Tirzepatide was approved in 2024 to treat obstructive sleep apnea
• Bone: Evidence is mixed-some studies show neutral effects, while others suggest glp1s may enhance bone formation in certain populations
• again Immune System: They exert broad antiinflammatory effects that reduce the risk of secondary infections and inflammation-driven conditions, such as sepsis and cellulitis.

With estimated 50million US having been on GLp1's in the last 5 years, that more than accounts for the bump in life expectancy.