If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

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    It’s sort of become a bit of a meme to end every google question with ‘reddit’ to trick it into showing you an actual human response. I’m sure that’s been good for traffic

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      I’ve had to start limiting the date to pre-2023 to keep ai bs out of the results

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        Just add before:2023 to your search query BTW.

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          Add what? Didn’t show up on mobile

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        That’s an excellent tip! I draw occasionally and finding references for animals is so much worse than it used to be.

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        I’ve heard some AI experts on Hard Fork suggest 80% of the Internet will be AI bot trash in 2 years.

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          Honestly wouldn’t surprise me. There’s already so much garbage when you google pretty much anything

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      Bots produce traffic as well, though. So it’s absolutely possible that traffic increased significantly. Just not in a meaningful way.