Google: We Don't Have Source Diversity, But We Have Chatbot Spew in Place of Sources (and It's Not Even Accurate)
The state of Google News is getting worse by the day as it lacks source diversity (it refuses to list or syndicate thousands of active Linux sites/blogs, including ours*). Here's today in RRRRRR, our RSS reader:
Half of these are the same site! (Mostly ads)
Sites nowadays complain that Google treats their work as merely an LLM "training set" (without sending them any traffic and while moreover getting their plagiarism wrong on facts). Search engines and news search never looked this bad... ______
* Source curation can be a form of censorship or perception management, very much akin to social control media.