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Prabhakar Raghavan Killed Google Search As We Know It

October 22, 2024 • Kathi Kruse and Mike theCarGuy Correra • Season 3 • Episode 27

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Both of us are sad. The open web is no longer and while it’s not just his doing, Google’s Head of Search, Prabhakar Raghavan was certainly the catalyst to its demise. Organic traffic as we know it is gone. Yes, posts and information from actual experts has been replaced by SEO spam, spam bots and the “AI Overview” that is wrong 44% of the time on financial queries.

Ed Zitron wrote about Mr. Raghavan’s demotion and it’s worth your time.

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The Specials: 45 year old October 19, 1979. Produced by Elvis Costello.

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