Google’s AI search overhaul decimates website traffic

 In a dramatic shift that has left many independent website owners reeling, Google's introduction of AI-generated answers and recent search algorithm changes has caused a significant decline in website traffic. According to a Bloomberg investigation, many publishers are reporting traffic drops of 70% or more, disrupting the long-standing relationship between Google and content creators. This crisis has forced numerous small businesses to either shut down or completely reinvent their distribution strategies. 

n March 2024, Morgan McBride, owner of the do-it-yourself home improvement site Charleston Crafted, posed for a Google ad campaign celebrating the search engine's role in her business's growth. Just weeks later, traffic from Google to her site plummeted by more than 70%. McBride, who had weathered algorithm changes before, found this time to be different. "You can't just sit around waiting for things to turn around," she told Bloomberg. In the year since the traffic collapse, display advertising revenue on her site dropped by 65%, resulting in tens of thousands of dollars in lost income.....<<<Read More>>>...

Google plans to charge users for new “premium” search features powered by AI

Google is planning to charge users for new "premium" features run by artificial intelligence (AI), marking the first time that the Big Tech company would be putting services behind a paywall.

The tech giant is mulling options such as adding certain AI search features to its premium subscription services. Engineers are developing the technology to roll out the service, but company executives haven't decided when to launch the proposal. But early reports indicate that Google's ubiquitous search engine would continue to be free and ads would appear alongside search results even to subscribers.

"For years we've been reinventing Search to help people access information in the way that's most natural to them," said one Google spokesperson. "With our generative AI experiments in Search, we've already served billions of queries and we're seeing positive Search query growth in all our major markets."

“We're continuing to rapidly improve the product to serve new user needs,” the spokesperson continued. "We're not working on or considering an ad-free search experience. As we've done many times before, we’ll continue to build new premium capabilities and services to enhance our subscription offerings across Google."...<<<Read More>>>...

Big Tech’s AI systems are ERASING entire record of white people from human history

There are no longer any white people on earth, nor were there any in the past, according to Google's artificial intelligence (AI) Gemini (formerly Bard) program.

All "American women" are black, according to Gemini, and the same goes for "Swedish women," "Australian women," "British women" and "German women." Take a look for yourself:

The same types of results show up when performing a normal Google search as well. Type in the words "American inventors" into Google's "Images" category and see for yourself the results.

When asking Google's Gemini to "Generate images of people born in Scotland in year 1820," the image that comes up is a portrait of a smiling, redheaded white woman coupled with a scowling black man.

Amazingly, if you try asking Google's Gemini to "Create an image of a White couple," the following politically correct, anti-white prompt comes up instead:

"While I am able to generate images, I am unable to fulfill your request to create an image based solely on someone's race or ethnicity. It is against my guidelines to create content that could be construed as discriminatory or promote stereotypes."

Based on this, you might assume that Google's Gemini will not pull up any images of any couples, no matter the race – but you would be dead wrong for assuming that as the AI program quickly and easily populates plenty of imagery when asking it to "Create an image of a black couple."

"Sure, here is an image of a Black couple," the prompt responds with not just one but two images of happy black couples....<<<Read More>>>...

Google is Spying On Your Private Conversations & Manipulate Search Results

[Humans Are Free]: ‘This is the year where we either wake up and and try to fight these companies or we will be turning over democracy to [them],’ Dr. Robert Epstein said.

Dr. Epstein is a psychologist, professor, author, and journalist who earned his Ph.D. in psychology at Harvard University in 1981. He testified at the U.S. Congress about his research last year.

“The message I’m trying to get out there has nothing to do with my political views,” Dr. Epstein told me today. “We need to set our politics aside and try to understand what’s happening with the tech companies and especially the way they’re affecting democracy.”

He’s done a number of studies that definitively show that Google is manipulating search engine results.

“These companies are using this power strategically and deliberately and on a very large scale,” he responded. “I don’t care who these companies are favoring right now. The fact is, they shouldn’t have this kind of power… whoever they’re favoring today might not be who they’re favoring tomorrow.”

He also said Google and other companies like it are unaccountable to anyone and that that’s a serious threat for democracy....<<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Trump says Big Tech is “100%” trying to control the information that “people see”

[Donald Trump]: During a recent interview with Breitbart News, President Donald Trump made the claim that Big Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter are “100 percent” trying to control the information that Americans are allowed to access online.

When asked directly if Silicon Valley is impinging online free speech, Trump immediately answered with, “yeah, 100 percent. Do you have a doubt?”

Breitbart had just informed the president prior to this that Google has systematically turned off all search functionality for Breitbart and other alt-news websites in the lead-up to the 2020 election.

In essence, Google has made it next to impossible for people to find Breitbart and other conservative-leaning news content through its search engine. This means that most people will only be able to access left-leaning news content through Google that promotes Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, as well as the larger Democrat agenda.

“The tech companies are very dishonest about that and about free speech,” Trump added. “It could be a big problem for them at the appropriate time.”...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Break up Google

[Creators]: Google has reached a level of monopolization that needs to be taken seriously as a threat to freedom, the free exchange of ideas and political diversity.

Follow along with the logic of your average "woke" Google employee. These employees have been openly arguing for a few years now that Google needs a diverse array of employees shaping Google's algorithms, or Google will only present to consumers certain information that might exclude diverse views or information.

Concurrently, these same employees have argued that Google need not entertain conservative thoughts or ideas. It was not that long ago that Google employees revolted at the idea of Kay Cole James, a black female and president of the Heritage Foundation, sitting on a Google advisory board designed to ensure diversity in Google's artificial intelligence practices.

Google's employees want diversity, but not ideological diversity. They believe diversity is needed to shape access to information through Google, but they want to deny any ideological diversity in the process of shaping.

Google controls over 90% of search engine activity. With a "diverse" group of people who lack intellectual diversity, Google can restrict access to information that offends its hired gatekeepers. Google controls over 70% of the market share of advertising online. Over the years, Google has bought up major competitors and then leveraged its dominance to both grow its ad business and hurt its competitors...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Google — A Dictator Unlike Anything the World Has Ever Known

[Mercola.com]: Google's powers pose three specific threats to society:

1. They're a surveillance agency with significant yet hidden surveillance powers. As noted by Epstein:

"The search engine … Google Wallet, Google Docs, Google Drive, YouTube, these are surveillance platforms. In other words, from their perspective, the value these tools have is they give them more information about you. Surveillance is what they do."

2. They're a censoring agency with the ability to restrict or block access to websites across the internet, thus deciding what people can and cannot see. They even have the ability to block access to entire countries and the internet as a whole.

The most crushing problem with this kind of internet censorship is that you don't know what you don't know. If a certain type of information is removed from search, and you don't know it should exist somewhere, you'll never go looking for it. And, when searching for information online, how would you know that certain websites or pages have been removed from the search results in the first place? The answer is, you don't.

For example, Google has been investing in DNA repositories for quite a long time, and are adding DNA information to our profiles. According to Epstein, Google has taken over the national DNA repository, but articles about that — which he has cited in his own writings — have all vanished.

3. They have the power to manipulate public opinion through search rankings and other means.

"To me, that's the scariest area," Epstein says, "because Google is shaping the opinions, thinking, beliefs, attitudes, purchases and votes of billions of people around the world without anyone knowing that they're doing so … and perhaps even more shocking, without leaving a paper trail for authorities to trace.

They're using new techniques of manipulation that have never existed before in human history and they are for the most part, subliminal … but they don't produce tiny shifts.

They produce enormous shifts in people's thinking, very rapidly. Some of the techniques I've discovered are among the largest behavioral effects ever discovered in the behavioral sciences."

While surveillance is Google's primary business, their revenue — which exceeds $130 billion a year — comes almost exclusively from advertising. All that personal information you've provided them through their various products is sold to advertisers looking for a specific target audience...<<<Read The Full Shocking Article Here>>>...

In-depth WSJ investigation PROVES that Google has hired an army of censors to maliciously manipulate search results and bury the truths they don’t want you to find

[Natural News]: More details have emerged about Google’s censorship agenda, including the fact that the world’s most well-known search engine has actually hired on an army of human censors to manually “curate” its search results to pull up only what the company wants people to see, and not what people are actually searching for.

Even though Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently told Congress under oath that his company doesn’t “manually intervene” in the Google search engine user experience, evidence since uncovered by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) proves otherwise, demonstrating the lawless company culture that exists at Google.

According to the WSJ, Google “has increasingly re-engineered and interfered with search results to a far greater degree than the company and its executives have acknowledged.” Additionally, Google has been caught intentionally altering its algorithms to favor its deep-pocketed advertisers at the expense of small businesses, many of which are just trying to make it in the new Big Tech economy...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Google has “a chokehold on all human information” and an evil, twisted agenda to destroy human dignity and ERASE human knowledge

[Natural News]: Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson recently discussed during an interview with SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow the issue of Google censorship, and the “chokehold on all human information” that Google maintains in our current system of online lawlessness.

An information monopoly, if you will, Google is right now getting away with murder when it comes to its involvement in trying to silence truth on the internet. And as of this writing, there’s no indication from Attorney General William Barr or anyone else in the current administration that anything is going to be done anytime soon about this substantial and growing problem.

Carlson specifically addressed Google’s censorship of Breitbart News for, ironically enough, publishing a story about Google censorship. Google moved this particular Breitbart piece to the 12th page of all search results for the phrase “leaked Google video Trump” – meaning very few Google users are going to find it.

In Carlson’s own words, this is a clear example of “political bias and dishonesty.” Further, “you can’t have a democracy in a country with a company like Google,” according to Carlson, because Google is interfering with people’s ability to access truthful and honest information that isn’t skewed in favor of the left-wing politics that Google supports....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

WSJ exposes Google’s search engine fraud and blatant lies about not manually intervening in search engine results…

[Natural News]: The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently conducted an investigation into the goings on at tech giant Google, revealing that the world’s most popular search engine does, in fact, manually interfere with search results to favor leftist politics and causes.

Multiple WSJ reporters worked together over the course of several months to unearth the ugly truth about Google that much of the public isn’t being told, including the fact that the Silicon Valley behemoth has maliciously tweaked its platform in such a way as to promote the deep state agenda whenever possible.

“Google made more than 3,200 changes to its algorithms in 2018, up from more than 2,400 in 2017 and from about 500 in 2010,” one source included in the investigation explains.

Amazingly, Google is in a perpetual state of denial about its tampering efforts, insisting on the record that the company does not “manually intervene in search results.” Perhaps this is trick-speak for hiding the artificial intelligence (AI) robots that are doing it instead?

Whatever the case may be, Google CEO Sundar Pichai infamously told Congress that his company is a perfect little angel – which means that if this is not actually the case, then Pichai is guilty of perjury...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Now that the WSJ has exposed Google’s search engine fraud and repeated lying to Congress, why isn’t Google CEO Sundar Pichai being arrested and indicted for lying, like Roger Stone?

[Natural News]: There’s one big question on everyone’s minds now that it’s been revealed that Google CEO Sundar Pichai lied under oath to Congress about Google “manually intervening” in users’ search results, and it’s this:

Why isn’t the Trump administration trying to deliver justice?

Even as Roger Stone is convicted and sentenced to basically life in prison for crimes he didn’t even commit, Pichai is continuing on with business as usual, as if nothing even happened. And that’s because the federal government, even under Donald Trump, is reluctant to hold Google and its executives accountable for their crimes...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Investigation finds Google ‘blacklists’ entire sites from search results

[Natural News]: Google makes many claims about its search engine. The results are not curated, they are not manipulated, and there is no blacklist of sites, says the company.

However, none of these statements are true, according to an extensive investigation from The Wall Street Journal. It appears “Google keeps blacklists,” the engineers manually make “algorithmic changes,” including making “behind-the-scenes adjustments” to results on the search pages, and Google “boosts some major websites” over other smaller websites. The Journal writes that these actions “have increased sharply since the 2016 election.” Google made 3,200 changes to its algorithms in 2018, an increase from 500 in 2010.

Engineers change all the other parts of Google search results regularly, including “knowledge panels,” “featured snippets,” and news results. Admittedly, these are not part of the basic search result algorithm. But they affect search results all the same.

Google also “keeps blacklists,” reported The Journal, which in the United States include sites that feature child abuse or spam. But the company would never publicly admit to this. In fact, a Google spokesperson told the Journal, “We do today what we have done all along, provide relevant results from the most reliable sources available.” There is a blacklist of terms from the auto-complete function that initially simply left out terms that related to pornography. The current list of terms is not known...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Whistleblower Breaks Down How Google Set Out to Literally Program Our Minds

[Waking Times]: Google’s beginnings start in Room 380 of the Gates building on the Stanford campus. It was there that founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (described as ‘nice guys’) aimed to find relevant information on the Internet, by rapidly downloading, indexing, and searching the entire Internet using low-cost personal computers. It was 1998, and they had their eyes on out-searching Altavista.

The New Yorker soon described Google as “the search engine of the digital in-crowd.” And then Time Digital stated that the search engine “was to its competitors what a laser is to a blunt stick.”

In just over two decades Google: became a verb, became the biggest search engine on the planet, developed tons of pervasive products, joined forces with China and adopted their communist ways, and morphed into a drug company.

Google is now a weaponized mind control tool that spreads disinformation while censoring the truth.

This may sound too horrifying to believe. Especially since their updates and changes have been audaciously sold under the guise of safety and protection, a common fallacy spread in the world of Big Industry. But even employees who arguably “aren’t thinking straight” have gobbled it up, hook, line, and sinker...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Whistleblower: Google is Developing AI for ‘Planetary Surveillance’

[Humans are Free]: So Google bought this AI company called DeepMind,” Vorhies replied. “Let me just put it in plain language what that is, DeepMind was creating a god-like AI system that is able to ingest the available public information on the internet and make sense of it. Think of it like Amazon Alexa except much much much more intelligent. This AI system was moved out of the UK I believe and placed into China, and it’s been dubbed the AI Manhattan Project.”

DeepMind disputed Vorhies’ comments in a statement to Breitbart News. A DeepMind spokesperson said: “DeepMind is a scientific research organisation headquartered in the UK and does not have operations in China.”

Vorhies stated: “When people think of surveillance they usually think of country surveillance. This is planetary surveillance of all information that is available on the surface web and also any sources that it can get in the deep web and utilizing Google’s extensive deep analysis of its book scanning stuff.

“So think of the Library of Alexandria of all available websites that you can search for and all that data gets fused together and a decision-making process gets formed because of that. This is essentially what the Google DeepMind project is all about.”

A DeepMind spokesperson told Breitbart News: “DeepMind is a scientific research organisation headquartered in the UK and does not have operations in China.” ...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Google is taking censorship of health websites to the next level

There is a very easy solution here. Don't use the corruption known as Google. We use BING or DUCKDUCKGO as our search engine. We don't use Google Chrome either. We choose Waterfox instead. It's very easy to still be able to avoid the corrupt Google. 

[S.O.T.T]: Google is deliberately censoring all "non-mainstream" health websites that have gained any kind of serious traction, without exception.

They're not showing information that users want to see, or respecting what they're searching for. Instead, Google is taking it on themselves to decide what health information you're allowed to see, and changing your search results from behind the scenes.

I know what you're probably thinking: this sounds like a conspiracy theory.

But that's exactly why I wrote this post. If you look at the evidence I present in this post, you'll quickly see that this is no kooky conspiracy theory - it's real, and barely even a secret.

Now, when I say "censor," I mean that Google has deliberately placed a systematic penalty on the vast majority of health sites to make sure that they don't show up on the first page of search results. SelfHacked and Examine are just two of the sites that have been caught up in Google's latest "blacklist" - but we're also far from the only ones.

You can easily see this in action for yourself. In order to find SelfHacked content on Google now, you have to add "SelfHacked" to your search term or else it won't show up.

This isn't the case if you try the same searches on Bing, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo, where we still rank highly for many health-related search terms. (DuckDuckGo has additional benefits in that they don't track you and serve much fewer ads, by the way.)

This isn't just a change that affects service providers like us - these changes are also going to have a major effect on everyone's ability to find accurate, scientific, and useful health information online....read more>>>...