For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline” (with regard to advertising, kinda-sorta)
The problem for years has been good stuff being drowned in slop.
It’s not going to be fixed.
Capitalism has distilled its parasitic behaviour down to a science to suck the life out of anything that dare to stand out, and leave its corpse dry, for the sake of more profits.
Ever since search engine “optimization” became a thing — which was not long after the Internet was opened to the public in the ‘90s.