Google Is Losing Its Power to Kill Publishers
RuntimeWire is growing and making money after a 97% collapse in Google Search visibility. AI assistants are fetching our reporting millions of times a month. Publishers are learning how to reach people without Google’s permission.
By Ryan Merket · Published · Updated
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There was a time when losing Google could put a publisher out of business. Get buried in Search and you could spend the next six months begging for your traffic back, rewriting perfectly good articles to satisfy whatever the SEO industry thought the algorithm wanted that week.
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In August, our Google Search visibility fell almost 97% in five days. The drop came shortly after WIRED covered RuntimeWire - coverage I took as spite after we beat them on a massive OpenAI story.…
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