That's when the longtime friends with search backgrounds began pondering how AI had changed the search industry, as publishers today are forced to compete with AI outputs referencing their own content as search traffic nosedives.
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Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
10 Sep. 2025
Reduce Algorithm Aversion by Giving Users Agency People often distrust algorithmic outputs in high stakes domains like finance.
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