Thanks to Paul VK3HN for sending this. The pernicious effects are so real that I almost didn't bother to post this. People just aren't reading the blog anymore. But for the record, here it is.
And here is what Google AI says about the impact of AI search boxes on the number of people visiting blogs:
Ha! So Google's AI itself acknowledges that it is causing a serious decline in traffic to tradional bogs and other web sites!
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The graph "Almost all of the US's top news sites have fewer visitors" is telling. But why the disparity?
ReplyDeleteSubstack is new, still building traffic. NYT is mature, still high quality, effectively not much change. NYT digital readership is growing, as the print readership has declined. Fox dropped 21%, aging viewship with failing eyevision/ cognitive issues and more. CNN dropped further reflecting much internal tumult. Several of these previous statements were AI generated- really!
on another story:
ReplyDeleteQualcom bought Arduino. Bye bye Arduino! Moving on, we have many Chinese Arduino clones. We have ESP32, RPi Pico, STM32, some RISC-V microcontrollers, PlatformIO.
A little off topic, dude, but anyway, you be correct!
DeleteThe Big Q is one of the last companies you would want to buy Arduino. So control-freak proprietary, even worse than Apple. I dealt with them in the 1990's. They demanded a $1Meg license "Fee" just to talk with them. Would not answer any questions of any kind without the "Fee".
Would have far preferred Google or Microchip to buy Arduino.
AI is replacing natural stupidity at all levels.
ReplyDeleteBill -
ReplyDeleteI think people may be reading the blog but if you have a short post the entire thing is readable from your base page: soldersmoke.blogspot.com
Google won't be able to tell you that people are reading a post from your base page.
Perhaps what you want is a base page more like N6QW's where each post is only teased:
http://n6qw.blogspot.com/
people would be more likely to click in to read the entire post and Google would increment the counter.
Is this making any sense ? :)
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
Now that I look at the soldersmoke blog a person can read any blog post including long detailed ones in their entirety from the base page, so unless they want to comment, Google won't be counting clicks.
DeleteBest Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY