Traffic - A new cartoon that illustrates how Google's adoption of AI in their search business is having an unintended consequence on small companies that depend on web traffic. Google search attracts 106Bn visits a month, 4x the next four search engines combined, with a market

If you could ask the Google Search team one (professional) question about the state of their results and how they have decimated independent sites, what would it be? 🤔

There’s only going to be a handful of companies running the gaming publishing industry soon. 🫠

A big shout out to The The Verge and nilay patel for bringing us up in their interview with Google CEO Sundar Pichai 🙏

Removing 90% of our traffic in one algorithm change isn't fun, nor is the fact that nobody at Google is helping us, or telling us why, not a single rep to explain

This is beautiful. 😍 I’ve not been excited about a handheld like this in a looong time. AYANEO

In case you missed today's #GoogleIO keynote presentation, we summed it up for you

It never gets old seeing our book in stores. 📚 Retro Dodo

Who remembers the TOMY Turnin' Turbo dashboard from the 80's? 🚗

This is a segment from our upcoming 'The Retroad Show', launching soon on our channel featuring Retro.Sect

It truly breaks my heart to make this video, after 5 years of building Retro Dodo Google has decided to remove it from their search engine, alongside thousands of other independent websites that are trying to build great website for users to discover. 😢

Some incredible sites with talented journalists are getting absolutely obliterated.

Remember when Google said we had to work on a sites EEAT? Ha…

It means nothing now.

It’s time to support those sites you love the most before they go extinct. 😥

For anyone that uses Google as their search engine, read this.

Google is becoming pay to win, and independent sites are being deleted from the search results. Retro Dodo is one of them, seeing a 90% loss of traffic now. 😥

And there it is. The last nail in the coffin for many of us. ☠️

No transparency, no help, no heart.

It’s now pay to win. Welcome to the future of Google Search. 🫡

Our features section is filling up fast with incredible stories about trading and collectible card games. 🃏

Take a look for yourself, months of work has gone into this category, alongside collaborations with a number of talented journalists in the industry. 💻

Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground.

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