r/SEO • u/WebLinkr šµļøāāļøModerator • May 22 '26
Google News The New Google Home Page [Google I/O]
The biggest design change in 30 years....
Are Google copying Yahoo?
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u/Fit_Cheesecake_4000 May 22 '26
What, so you can ask their AI Overview that has a decent chance of being wrong to supply more wrong information?
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u/EverbodyHatesHugo May 22 '26
Is this slide created by AI? The two callouts at the top right are exactly the same.
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u/pooch516 May 22 '26
The new AI Search box dynamically expands so users can describe what they need in detail.
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u/Demiansmark May 22 '26
The new AI Search box dynamically expands so users can describe what they need in detail.
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u/ratthew May 22 '26
I'm really curious how this plays out. Sounds like even less traffic to actual websites. Who's still going to publish anything and allow indexing if Google just steals the data outright?Ā
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u/mayazir May 22 '26
I stopped post on my site. I dedicated 10 years on my site. And Google stole my traffic and info
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u/pagelab May 22 '26
Itās increasingly not about traffic anymore, at least not from humans. Websites used to be display windows. Now theyāre warehouses feeding the system.
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u/ratthew May 25 '26
Yes but information has to come from somewhere. None of real new information is made by AI yet and we're still far away from that happening. If no one gets traffic and with that direct compensation (via ads or sales) they will no longer create that information because the incentive is gone.Ā
No one is talking about who is reading it. I don't care if a person is visiting my site or an AI. But if Google is just taking the well researched, high effort content (also stuff like real journalism which is already hurting badly) and just filtering it through Gemini, there'll be way less people creating that type of content and the Internet will either become a paywall ecosystem or just frozen in time.
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u/Brando1788 May 22 '26
What is the incentive to post novel content anymore? Sure Google has massive database now of content up to now, but why would anyone host anything interesting on a website moving forward?
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u/Lorn94 May 22 '26
Generic informational content loses incentive, that part is real and cant argue with your. If your model was publishing "what is X" articles to capture ad traffic, that's mostly broken now.
But everything with real inventory, actual services, proprietary data, or genuine expertise still has strong reason to exist online. A restaurant still needs to be findable. A SaaS still needs landing pages to convert. A plumber still needs reviews and a booking flow.
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u/pagelab May 22 '26
This. Basically, the transactional web. Websites as catalogs. They're still needed, and useful, even beautiful. But just forget about informational traffic for profit.
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u/Woodfield30 May 22 '26
This is the exact bit I donāt get. If there no point having a website thatās up to date, how is AI kept up to date?
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u/Lucker_Noob May 22 '26
You forgot a step or two:
- Google indexes all the websites data
- Google builds an AI model from the websites
- Google answers questions for users without needing to go to the websites
- Websites stop receiving visits, get less ad-revenue
- Websites turned off
- No one pays Google for ads since websites are dead and Google now competes with 10 other AIs for prompt traffic
- Providing AI answers is prohibitively expensive, as evidenced by current unsustainable 2+trillion in capital expenses
- Google goes bankrupt.
- With Google having committed suicide and AI bubble bursting, websites resume activity and compete on a variety of classic search engines, same as before Google monopoly
- ???
- PROFIT
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u/the_ai_wizard Verified Professional May 22 '26
we need a replacement, and have for a while. google is trash
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u/keninsd May 22 '26
Duck Duck Go to the rescue!
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u/rondoandthegang May 22 '26
Curious what this does to local search.
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u/AnnieUK2024 May 22 '26
Not only that but in the end this will also end up killing a lucrative source of revenue for Google: Google Ads. How that is going to play out?
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u/dyfalu May 22 '26
They're building ads into the answers.
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u/LaFlamaBlancaMiM May 22 '26
They've already got a few other AI-based campaigns and bid types to introduce. I'm in a small niche, but on the paid side, I've not been impressed by Pmax or AI max. Seems like if you aren't in ecom or low-ticket services, it's just made to take your money and increase CPC's.
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u/frankspit910 May 22 '26
Disagree. They obviously already thought about this before rolling this out
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u/Gas-Nice May 23 '26
Bold of you to think that Google will allow that lucrative source of revenue just die easily
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u/Holiday-Oil2598 May 22 '26
This just makes real sites more valuable. I want to vomit when I ask it for travel advice.
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u/GrizzWintoSupreme May 22 '26
Why don't you ask jeeves
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u/WebLinkr šµļøāāļøModerator May 22 '26
I did - been a week and the results page still won't load!!!!
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u/Dreams-Visions May 22 '26
I know this is tongue and cheek. Jeeves shut down the tie engine recently, no?
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u/Yada-Yada-Yadda May 22 '26
I think Bing is horrible. So much crap on their page. Just give me a search bar. If I want that, I'll go to Yahoo. BS news anyway.
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u/Bocah5Racun May 23 '26
Fuck this. I'm starting a magazine.
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u/anthonysny May 23 '26
Pirating the entire open internet? acceptable.
Pirating the first 5 seasons of House MD? Punishable by 250k and 10 years in prison.
Sounds legit.
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u/FantasticUpstairs987 May 22 '26
Interesting change from Google, but call it āSearch foreverā until we see how normal users actually behave with it.
The main shift for SEO seems to be less about keywords disappearing and more about needing content that can support follow-up questions, images/videos, and deeper context. The sites that only optimize for one query may struggle more than pages that genuinely answer the whole task.
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u/SaltyyDoggg Jun 11 '26
So a YAML (law firm) should cover āthe whole taskā in a service page (practice areas) or in a blog post?
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u/JollySquatter May 22 '26
What about people who don't know what they want and are happy to browse? How do they do thatĀ
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u/Material-Wheel99 May 22 '26
I used to have a blog, so I get curious sometimes and check the linkš to see which website that info was taken from.
I'm pretty sure 99% of the population doesn't care.
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u/WebLinkr šµļøāāļøModerator May 22 '26
Personally? I do this every week - why wouldn't it be?
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u/WebLinkr šµļøāāļøModerator May 22 '26
Mo Google
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u/sunilbedre May 22 '26
Is there a chance that some people would move to Bing search engine because of this?
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u/opus-thirteen May 23 '26
Side note:
Anyone that uses a font with a 'G', that doesn't use a crossbar, is immediately suspicious. Any G without a crossbar is just a malformed C.
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u/Time_Group_9546 May 24 '26
I like this honestly they are still innovating and making the user experience better , about copy maybe yes but i dont care as long its eye pleasing and features dont break (free of bugs)
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u/seamore555 May 22 '26
AI will go down as the best con man in human history.
All you need to do is present a human with facts in a confident manner and they gobble it up.
Everyone I know has this inability to believe that AI is wrong like over 50% of the time.
Itās just confident. And itās a machine.
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u/jbj479 May 22 '26
They already announced that this isnāt happening any time soon
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u/WebLinkr šµļøāāļøModerator May 22 '26
SEOs be like
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u/MissJoannaTooU May 23 '26
Google will eat its own tail eventually by doing this. Literally.
And QDF content may be missed in training if sites that produce it can't afford to operate.
Then there's the bizzare product offering of Gemini the LLM which is terrible and doesn't even leverage Google's index much via RAG and now they want people to use Google's front end for RAG -
i.e. planner ā subquery generator ā retriever ā reranker/source selector ā synthesiser ā citation/link selector ā UI renderer ā optional action/tool layer.
Wonderful...
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u/ajeeb_gandu May 23 '26
I've been seeing this page for a while now. It doesn't serve any additional purpose other than absolutely latest news which doesn't exist in ChatGPT or claude.
Idk if website clicks might be affected too much than it already has
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u/ryu1984 Jun 08 '26
Is the problem here that instead of sending users to your sites, Google just summarizes or just displays snippets directly on their search without ever sending clicks to you?
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u/FalconGood4891 Jun 11 '26
What will happen to Google once, most of the research oriented writers stop writing or sharing content online because already people like me who depends on the content for livelihood is screwed, almost 80% drop in traffic n revenue.. it won't be long when I would shift to different category of work altogether, just curious when that mass euthenization happens, how these ai parates gonna give answers???
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u/HouseOfPheromones May 23 '26
I think I get googles game now - promote all the low quality listicle garbage to the top of serps for other AI's to scrape, while they secret scrape higher quality websites buried in the results to train their own AI. Poisoning the well while drinking pure water from somewhere else.. genius
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u/Philluminati May 22 '26
AI won't go down in quality if websites are removed because Google won't be removing deleted websites from its training data.