Valentin Pletzer
@VorticonCmdr
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Munich
Joined June 2008
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I flagged Google claimed "open web is already in rapid decline" in a weekend legal filing to try to stop divestiture of its adtech monopolies. A Google senior exec tried to reframe it yesterday as out of context shorthand when press caught on to it. Lawyers now cleaning up. /1
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Google claims, in court no less, the open web is dying
But wait, what is Google's side of story as they also just posted their 25 pages. Google states (this is news by the way) "the open web is already in rapid decline" which IMHO is a pretty rich claim considering Google has dominated distribution, design, monetization of it. /10
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GSC is currently missing hourly data inbetween "2025-09-02T11:00:00-07:00" and "2025-09-03T00:00:00-07:00" @googlesearchc @danielwaisberg
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Seeing Google Discover replacing site name with author name... But I think this is in prep for showing both site name and author name? First screenshot discover, Second, chrome feed cc @lilyraynyc
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Well there you have it... It's SerpApi. Note, Perplexity is also a customer of theirs -> Sources: OpenAI has been partially using Google search results scraped by a startup called SerpApi for ChatGPT responses on current events like news and sports "OpenAI is getting the data
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WOW, there's a LOT of interest in the API 🤩 We're now looking through the applications and selecting the first batch of participants. We'll start onboarding around mid-September, but we'll start very small, so if you don't get an email from us, it might take a few more months.
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ChatGPT 4o tells me since I am neither a free user nor a Pro user (I am "only" a paying Plus user) I will have to wait for access. I have to say I am disappointed.
when you get access to gpt-5, try a message like "use beatbot to make a sick beat to celebrate gpt-5". it's a nice preview of what we think this will be like as AI starts to generate its own UX and interfaces get more dynamic. it's cool that you can interact with the
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Just updated data in light of eye-popping acceleration of 'zero-click' searches as Google's AI Overview scheme captures web traffic. I've been watching G's ad revenue mix shift from network (publishers) to its own properties for over a decade. It just hit 90% for first time. 1/2
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40 years of Phrack
Going to @defcon?! We'll have 9500 print copies of Phrack, and Sunday @ noon @netspooky @richinseattle and @chompie will be on main stage! https://t.co/CnATXAp5ri
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I wonder if Google went from being a search engine to being a publisher. And that is why there is no need for a @searchliaison anymore.
This account is no longer active. Please follow @googlesearchc for information for site owners and @Google for the latest updates.
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How do I turn of the auto-translated voiceover (english -> german)? They are really bad quality. @YouTubeInsider
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Proof that ChatGPT Plus is secretly Google-powered - “hidden page” experiment 1. I coined a nonsense word. 2. I then put it on a page not linked anywhere. 3. Forced Google to index it via Search Console; left all other engines unaware. 4. Asked ChatGPT Plus to define the term →
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Google hates web publishers, they see themselves as the publisher via theft now. Cancel their Section 230 protections asap.
Google Discover officially gets AI-generated summaries - no publisher wants it - plus these new more overlay windows https://t.co/Xq6KYBBeTG via @andelldam and @TechCrunch
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Gemini Embeddings General Available! First Gemini Embedding model (`gemini-embedding-001`) now available for production use, ranking top on MMTEB optimized for finance, science, legal, search, code. 👀 - 🏦 $0.15 per million input tokens with free tier. - 🥇 Top MMTEB
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.@googlesearchc just enabled the new "Insights" tab for me. Fascinating how little helpful this is for news publishers since all "trending up" articles are new articles and everything "trending down" are old ones.
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Matthew Prince shared these stats: đź“Š 10 years ago: Google crawled 2 pages per visitor đź“Š 6 months ago: Google 6:1, OpenAI 250:1, Anthropic 6,000:1 đź“Š Now: Google 18:1, OpenAI 1,500:1, Anthropic 60,000:1
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a bit strange to see Google News listed there. As if Google News is recognized as a news publisher itself.
I’m not sure whether this information is useful, but when you enable “preferred sources,” the suggestion results display the well-known label “uvSitechunk” which points to the source’s domain name—more precisely, to the exact sub-domain. That reminded me of the Google leak
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Hey @googleaidevs @AnthropicAI I have spent the last 5+ years making things look awesome in the terminal. You could have access to all the expertise for the price of a sponsorship, and help fund open source. #worthashot
https://t.co/CeQFcEYXUk
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I was trying to get the "preferred sources" features but I found only this. Is this new @rustybrick ? The UX feels broken too me.
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Remember when all our problems could be fixed with notepad and an .ini file?
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