David Pierce predicts Google search will enter a negative feedback loop where declining quality drives away users and content sources.
“you can just see how this starts to turn on Google in in kind of a death spirally kind of way that the worst Google search work gets, the worse it will get.”
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disputableGoogle search market share declines measurably, or major publishers/content sources publicly withdraw from Google indexing due to quality concerns.
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