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Google Zero refers to a potential future scenario where search engines, due to AI-powered tools reducing link clicks, no longer send traffic to websites, threatening the web's structure and online publishing industry.
Google's recent algorithm updates and the introduction of AI-generated answers have significantly impacted many independent websites, reducing their traffic and revenue. While Google claims these changes improve search quality and user experience, critics argue they disproportionately favor large, established brands and user-generated content platforms like Reddit, potentially harming smaller publishers and content creators.
Jezebel, a prominent women-centric website, has announced its closure after failing to find a buyer. The site, which played a significant role in shaping the way the internet talks about women, confronted issues such as unattainable beauty standards, fat-phobia, and sexist behavior from powerful men. Jezebel also played a crucial role in mainstreaming the ongoing fight for reproductive rights. Its closure marks the end of an important incubator for female writing talent and leaves a void in the media landscape.
Jezebel, the feminist news and opinion website, is shutting down after 16 years due to a misalignment with G/O Media's business model and unsuccessful attempts to sell the site. The closure will result in the layoff of 23 editorial staffers. G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller expressed his admiration for Jezebel's editorial coverage but cited economic headwinds affecting the company's financial health. The shutdown has sparked criticism from former staff members and WGA East members, who blame G/O Media's strategic and commercial ineptitude.
Substack founders have criticized Twitter's new restrictions on promoting tweets with links from the publishing platform, stating that writers' livelihoods should not be tied to platforms where they don't own their relationship with their audience and where the rules can change on a whim. Twitter users noticed that they couldn't like, reply to, or retweet some tweets that had Substack links in them, and Twitter hasn't explained why it made the change. The Substack founders say this serves as a reminder of why writers need a platform that rewards great work with money and protects free speech.