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Submission + - Google AIO in Violation of it's Own Spam Policies? (x.com)

Submitted by TheWho79
TheWho79 writes: A viral post on Twitter/X by Nate Hake points out that Google AI overviews violates most of Google content guidelines.

-No first-hand experience -Uses extensive automation -No expertise -Primarily summarizes what others have written

Screen shots from the Google guidelines, paint a damning picture of Google AIO as spam. In fact, many commentors said that Google AIO actually violate most — if not all — Googles own guidelines.

Submission + - Adobe Survey Says ChatGPT vs Google is Really Happening

Submitted by TheWho79
TheWho79 writes: The hype and the noise of Google vs ChatGPT has at times felt like so much wishing by bloggers, social media, and mainstream press. It also has seemed like Google used AI search as an excuse to increase click share and dwell time with zero click serps in order to generate higher ad clicks. However, this new survey by Adobe says that Google vs ChatGPT is really happening. They point out that the usage and adoption rate is much higher than we've heard from any other source:
  • 77% of people in the U.S. use ChatGPT as a search engine.
  • 24% of people in the U.S. go to ChatGPT first, with Gen Z (28%) being the most likely to do so.
  • 3 in 10 people in the U.S. trust ChatGPT more than other search engines.
  • 36% of people in the U.S. discovered a new product or brand through ChatGPT, with Gen Z leading at 47% and Gen X at 37%.
  • 47% of marketers and business owners use ChatGPT to market or promote their business, and 2 in 3 plan to increase their focus on AI visibility in 2025.

Submission + - Journalists Call Google AI a Serious Threat to Internet (wsj.com)

Submitted by TheWho79
TheWho79 writes: It is true, Google AI is stomping on the entire internet. From HuffPost to the Atlantic, publishers prepare to pivot or shut the doors. A story in WallStreetJournal

Traffic from organic search to HuffPost’s desktop and mobile websites fell by just over half in the past three years, and by nearly that much at the Washington Post, according to digital market data firm Similarweb.

Even highly regarded old school bullet-proof publications like Washington Post are getting hit hard.

The rapid development of click-free answers in search “is a serious threat to journalism that should not be underestimated,” said William Lewis, the Washington Post’s publisher and chief executive. Lewis is former CEO of the Journal’s publisher, Dow Jones.


Submission + - Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers (github.io)

Submitted by TheWho79
TheWho79 writes: It appears as though Meta (aka: Facebooks parent company) and Yandex have found a way to side step the Android Sandbox :

a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes. These native Android apps receive browsers' metadata, cookies and commands from the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica scripts embedded on thousands of web sites. These JavaScripts load on users' mobile browsers and silently connect with native apps running on the same device through localhost sockets. As native apps access programatically device identifiers like the Android Advertising ID (AAID) or handle user identities as in the case of Meta apps, this method effectively allows these organizations to link mobile browsing sessions and web cookies to user identities, hence de-anonymizing users' visiting sites embedding their scripts. This web-to-app ID sharing method bypasses typical privacy protections such as clearing cookies, Incognito Mode and Android's permission controls. Worse, it opens the door for potentially malicious apps eavesdropping on users’ web activity.


Submission + - How Google Tracks You Across the World (searchengineworld.com)

Submitted by TheWho79
TheWho79 writes: It is such pervasive surveillance network, that it is almost easier to ask, where they can’t’ track you than it is to ask where they can track you. As far as we can see from the outside-looking-in, there is no other entity even remotely close to being able to track you so extensively. Everything from Phones, to TV's, to public WiFI, no entity in history (not even the Govt) can track you in so many ways. Here is a list of the 30 primary ways Google can track you across — not just the web — but the whole world.

by the time I was done with this, I set here sullen and considerably concerned with just how many ways Google can see you. I really came to realize the dystopian reality we are living in. I wonder if George Orwell were alive today, would he be as worried about the Govt, or more about Google? I mean once you put this in relation to an AI analyzing all this mountain of data – HOLY F*CK batman, does Google ever get a picture of who you are – and we envision: eventually how to manipulate your behavior!


Submission + - Immigration and Customs Enforcement Goes BlackHat SEO?

Submitted by TheWho79
TheWho79 writes: Looks like (ICE) Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has gone old school and playing with a little Black Hat SEO by updating old press releases with fresh dates. Those dates cause Google to surface those old stories — some going back to mid-2000's to make it appear as though they happened recently.

All the archived Ice press releases soaring to the top of Google search results were marked with the same timestamp and read: “Updated: 01/24/2025”. The lawyer noticed a strange pattern. In almost every state, at least one press release from Ice’s website appeared in Google’s top results. Nebraska, for example, surfaced links for two press releases. One said “ICE executes federal search warrants in Nebraska”, the other said “ICE fugitive operations team arrests 44 absconders”. Both displayed their dates of publication as 24 January 2025 on Google search. But when the lawyer clicked through to the report, the actual dates of publication were August 2018 and June 2008, respectively.

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