{"id":21471,"date":"2025-09-09T14:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=21471"},"modified":"2025-09-09T23:48:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:48:45","slug":"google-admits-the-open-web-is-in-rapid-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2025\/09\/google-admits-the-open-web-is-in-rapid-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Google admits the open web is in \u2018rapid decline\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"post-title wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/773928\/google-open-web-rapid-decline?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Google admits the open web is in \u2018rapid decline\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For months, Google has maintained that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20250611-ai-mode-is-google-about-to-change-the-internet-forever\">web is \u201cthriving,\u201d<\/a> AI isn\u2019t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26086105-google-memorandum-ad-tech\/\">in a court<\/a> filing from last week, Google admitted that \u201cthe open web is already in rapid decline,\u201d as spotted earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jason_kint\/status\/1964380170741305846?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1964380170741305846%7Ctwgr%5Ecf184c464cb85b57512766bb73b9856da74b91f1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.seroundtable.com%2Fgoogle-open-web-is-in-rapid-decline-40068.html\">by Jason Kint<\/a> and reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-open-web-is-in-rapid-decline-40068.html\">by <em>Search Engine Roundtable<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google admits the open web is in \u2018rapid decline\u2019 For months, Google has maintained that the web is \u201cthriving,\u201d AI isn\u2019t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that \u201cthe open web is already in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,227],"class_list":["post-21471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-google","tag-open-web","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-5Aj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21491,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21471\/revisions\/21491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}