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“As web searches are increasingly performed by AI chatbots, the number of people visiting websites is falling. It's a change that poses a serious threat to the open web. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...”
“Long ago, Yelp complained that Google was hurting its business by surfacing information from Yelp in Google searches such that people stopped visiting Yelp. (Lawsuit over this ongoing.) With AI mode, the rest of the web is now feeling Yelp's pain: www.nytim…”
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Luis Villa: @uhjustin.bsky.social a billion people a month use ChatGPT. It has more users than Wikipedia does, and is by any metric the fastest growing product in history. There’s a lot of complex and importan…
Luis Villa: @uhjustin.bsky.social because life is too short to argue on the internet with random strangers, and because I’m on vacation. Muting you now, have a great life!
Luis Villa: @viperx83.bsky.social anyway here’s Cloudflare data saying human web browsing is falling off a cliff https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/google-ai-open-web.html
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