One of the big problems with pre-AI Overviews was the highly SEO optimized website that received an A+ in website ranking but barely a C- or D in website content. Lots of buzzwords, but no substance. There were lots of those kinds of sites, particularly after the approximate time period of 2010, give or take a few years. Countless times I’d find (maybe) what I was looking for on page 2 or 3 of search results. The newer AI Overviews, and the ability to engage with the AI, is invaluable to me. AI answers are definitely not right 100% of the time, but neither were folks and corporations writing their websites. Even highly peer-reviewed science is wrong some of the time.

What I think is happening here, besides any legal arguments of defamation, is that corporations are unhappy that their websites are not getting as much traffic as they used to get.

Are you like 14-18 years old?

I’d guess I’m probably 5 decades older than you.

Edit: For your future information, if you want to disagree with someone, that’s fine. But when you start out with a personal attack, then I know all I need to know about the quality of discussion or disagreement that can be had with the likes of your argumentative style. While I’d love to engage you on your other points, the personal attack you started with precludes it. My life is much better without you in it.

I’d hate to see the overviews and the AI summaries disappear. There’s no way I or any other human can read 100 websites in a few seconds the way the computer can.

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Has this story made it to OAN news, NewsMax, and similar? The people who need to hear it are the people who voted for him.

You want access to my and all other Americans health records? Simple. Pay the medical bills. Otherwise, no.

Biden blame is a stupidity test.

MAGA is waging a war on the poor.

Which politicians are calling for a permanent basic income?

I guess they are planning on future fish kills? The closure is “indefinite”? What caused the kill? Water doesn’t typically kill fish, does it? This article says “water released from a dam” is what killed the fish.

As I understand it, uBlacklist blocks entire URLs, or highlights them, at Google search. UBlacklist would be useful to block “cbs dot com” search results. CBS is a big company with ownership of other companies. I was given this list of them today from search, and I don’t know if it’s accurate or complete:

Corporate Names: CBS, Paramount, Paramount+, Viacom, Pluto TV

Major Networks & Channels: Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, BET, TV Land, CMT, Pop TV, Logo TV, Smithsonian Channel, Dabl

Kids Brands: Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., TeenNick, AwesomenessTV

Flagship Shows: Star Trek, Stephen Colbert, James Corden, Survivor, Big Brother, The Price Is Right, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, NCIS, Yellowstone

BlockTube is a browser extension. I typically use search to help me set it up.

I’ve been entering CBS and its various channel IDs into BlockTube. If enough folks do that, they’ll notice their online traffic drop.

Gonna need a basic income so that freed-up worker can focus.

Imagine what it’s like to trade against those who have insider info.

Look at the good side, Theil is proving religion is by and for humans, some of which consider themselves better than other humans.

My limited understanding of the history was that during the patent medicine era, medicines had proprietary formulas and varying compositions. For example, many formulas had cannabis extract, others contained opium. The initial regulations therefore were done for medical purposes of drug purity. Edited to add, it wouldn’t surprise me if the overuse of opium in the patent medicine era led directly to judging the medical usefulness of these drugs, although it’s just a guess.

While it’s just a guess, pharmaceutical lobbying is likely why. None of that happened before the FDA was created sometime in the early 1900s.

Right now we’re in the political stages of considering the regulating of internet access to minors, the addictiveness of social media is not regulated.

Trump admin insures medical experts can’t attend medical conference?

And if a pharmaceutical or drug has addictive properties with no medical uses, the government outlaws it by scheduling it as having abuse potential. Seems like a big double standard.