Google's AI Monopoly: How It Silenced a Travel Website (And Thousands More)
2025-05-29
Travel Lemming, a small travel website, lost over 95% of its traffic due to Google's algorithm updates. The author argues that Google used AI updates to systematically suppress independent websites, clearing the way for its AI-first search future. Google isn't just monopolizing search; it's aiming to monopolize answers themselves, creating an information cartel. The author calls for attention to this issue to prevent the flow of information from being controlled by a single entity.
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