“But Google controls the roads. If tomorrow they decide the roads won’t go to an entire town, that town dies.”
HouseFresh filled a basement with air purifiers and tested them. Google’s updates cut it from thousands of daily visitors to hundreds and most of the staff got laid off. Reddit’s Google traffic grew 126% over the same stretch, and Google swears its Reddit deal had nothing to do with ranking. Google says AI Overviews send publishers more clicks, and it won’t show the data.