We usually don’t share these types of articles, but I think this one will catch your interest. Many of Google’s services, such as Google Analytics 4, Google Search, and Google Discover, are not currently working as they should. To make matters worse, Google has released three Core Updates in just four months, which is quite unusual. So, let’s dive in.
Let’s start with Google Analytics 4. Back in July, Google replaced UA with GA4. UA was the previous version of Google Analytics which worked like a charm. To be honest, I really don’t know why Google has replaced it. GA4 is in every aspect worse than UA. Not only that but even in its pre-release period, GA4 had MAJOR issues. And things got way worse when Google discontinued UA. GA4 was never able to provide reliable results. At first, there was a 5% data difference between UA (or other traffic plugins) and GA4. And things have gone downhill since July. For the past couple of months, GA4 has reported 33% less traffic than what we currently have. This is a HUGE discrepancy. Seriously, what’s the point of a traffic measurement tool when it’s unable to provide accurate results? And we are not the only ones that have this issue. This is a universal/global issue that Google has not been able to fix, which is really laughable for a company the size of Google.
Then we have Google Search. I’m pretty sure that a lot of you have spotted some weird results while searching. Since its August Core 2023 Update, Google Search has been providing bizarre results. The Search Engine also appears to favor specific websites. For instance, Reddit and Quora have seen a huge increase in results for all kinds of topics. Then you have tech sites ranking at the first places for “Health” results. What in the bloody hell?
Lastly, we have Google Discover and Google News. Both of them have been a mess for a couple of months. A lot of websites have disappeared from Google Discover for no apparent reason. Google News also reports weird results when searching. Seriously, go ahead and search for “The Division 2 Update” on the Google News Browser Tab and on the Google News App. On the Google News Browser Tab (open your browser, type the search result, and press the “News” Tab) you’ll get accurate results. On the Google News App, you’ll get results for Alexa Jobs or Iran or Louisiana football. The Google News App and Google Discover ARE A COMPLETE AND UTTER MESS right now. I’m shocked at the level of incompetence here.
As a result of this whole clusterfuck, a lot of reputable websites have lost organic traffic. To prove that we’re not the only ones affected by these issues, here are some of our colleagues. As you can see, all of them had a major traffic decrease.
Here are some more. All of them are credible websites that were most likely hit by the Google Discover bug (which took Google a month to fix).
Tagging @searchliaison @JohnMu in case you're interested in these. pic.twitter.com/VGa9yjn4Ql— DSOGaming – DarkSideOfGaming (@D_S_O_Gaming) November 6, 2023
At the beginning of November, Google stated that it had identified an issue that could affect its Google Discover results. This issue was introduced with the October Core 2023 Update. In short, it took Google a month to fix it. However, two days afterward, Google issued the November Core 2023 Update. And, guess what? The November Core 2023 Update re-introduced this bug. That, or Google never really fixed that initial bug.
All in all, most of Google’s services are currently busted. From GA4 to Google News, everything appears to be in a complete mess. Of course, Google will never publically admit this. However, EVERYONE is currently experiencing what we’ve reported. I also expect to see even more layoffs in the coming months on other websites if Google does not fix these issues. Because yes, things are THAT bad for other websites.
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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All Google services is complete mess. This is their main strategy – throw every idea on the service wall and see what will stick.
Scroogled
Google is by far the biggest search engine but with that comes a responsibility to users. It seems that some don’t understand why some words are censored here and have to have an * put in the word to get around Google. Google doesn’t apply this policy evenly. Some sites are immune to this arbitrary bullying and some sites aren’t.
What has the policy of Disqus got to do with Google?
You do realize with your IQ level of 143 that Google doesn’t even track comments in Disqus in any shape or form, right?
Then explain to me why John has gotten several warnings from Google in the past that have notified him that this site may have to be classified as an adult site due to some of the language here?
When I read that from John years ago I entered “PC gaming news” in Google and there wasn’t a single entry in the first 20 pages for this site. There were entries even for obscure sites and sites that no longer even existed but not this site.
When & where was this warning from Google to John ever mentioned?
And if it has really happened, then only because there have been manual complaints by organizations such as the JIDF, who are notorious within the industry for relentlessly trying to push through their own self-interests…
I already told you it was years ago. Do you really think that I’m going to search back that far through John’s commenting history for you? Believe what you like. I know what I saw him say.
Yeap, this did happen. That’s why we’re censoring words. It’s also one of the reasons why you see in YouTube people censoring specific words (with beeeeeeeebs).
you cant call someone fat in youtube without been told you violated their rules
So that’s why I keep hearing the word “grape” so much on YouTube.
THANK YOU. I thought i was the only one
hell the regulatory agencies dont apply their policies equally either.
There’s a simple reason for all of this, John:
Google has started devaluing websites who are relying on “Large Language Model” AI/ML chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to write the articles for them.
And ever since you started using ChatGPT to write those patch notes article of yours, you have been classified as a “victim”, too.
And please don’t try to deny the use of ChatGPT:
Anyone who compares a patch notes article of yours from a few months ago to an article generated in recent times can clearly see you are making use of AI/ML generated content.
Long gone are the days of “Google is your friend” in 2019 when they intentionally changed the algorithms to censor many truthful sites and favor MSM f*ggot sites to appear at the top of the search results like (((TheGaymer, GaymeRant, EuroGaymer, PCGaymer))). Like literally, TheGaymer has absolutely nothing unique about it, no interactivity in the comments, just pure kosher propaganda 24/7, it even published blatantly published an anti-gamer article (of course, in the immediate aftermath of some f*ggot developers like Cory Barlog or (((Neil Israeli Cuckmann))) getting harassed for their f*ggotry) so why would such ultra-r4tarded site appear at the top of the search results all the time?
It’s not even just gaming, but even politics, whenever you just write “news,” Jew-controlled MSM channels like (((BBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, Fox, etc))) flood the top search results Every. Single. Time. And the brain dead goyim STILL can’t figure out that Jewgle search is manipulated and STILL have the nerve to call you an “antisemitic conspiracy theorist” for exposing the TRUTH that Jews control the media.
For politics or if you want to search about pozzed gaymes, use Yandex instead (I know this one was also controlled by Russian Jews, don’t know who controls it now, but the search results are nowhere near as pozzed as Jewgle).
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Worse is Youtube, the search function is literally useless and just shows whatever the hell Google wants you to see.
It’s absolutely terrible, videos I used to watch 5 years ago and find easily with some keywords I can’t even find by searching their title word for word now.
what a massive pile of word vomit.
OK groomer.
Guessing Youtube was affected by this too? I’ve been getting about a thousand views less a day than usual and suddenly it jumps back to normal.
Honestly? Google search results have been trash for a year or so, its political and has to do with the us elections, i get search results for sites that are basically fake and probably filled with viruses when i look for information on old games or mods, in their attempt to censor results related to politics they have destroyed the search results for everything else, right now you get as good results as yandex when you look for non political stuff and if you look for political stuff, yandex might censor criticism of russia but not the west, so in a way you can find dirt on the democrats by using yandex while in google its hidden, but hey, this is all fine according to google because they silence “misinformation” when it comes to politics but everything not related to politics, enjoy your free virus from a fake site that was created to match your search query and pointless sites that have nothing to do with what you searched but you get it these results anyway because, i dont know affirmative action hired incompetent people or deliberate destruction for censorship? The worst is when you check news for games and you find old articles from 2 weeks ago because “the news is changing fast” or whatever the google censors say when you google something political that just happened and its still unconfirmed so they inform you that they are pre censoring the results until they decide what to show you, the ways that this destroys ai since it uses google search cannot be understated, google sucks now.
Way more than a year, 6 years at the very least and it was already pretty bad by then.
Old media and new medi used to be distinct things and now new media is just old media but with a search function.
It’s dystopian what’s happening to the web.
You’ve nailed it fella.
More like 10 years ….. I was a beta tester for the original Google Search Engine in the late 90’s which allowed me to get a locked in price during the IPO in 2004. Problem was after the IPO there was a lot of stockholder pressure to turn a bigger profit and that’s when all the advertising BS started which actually mucked up the search results because instead of being rated by relevance it also rated by who was paying Google for advertising. Google search hasn’t really been good since 2012, at least not as good as in was in 2000-2010. They also started dropping a lot of the Search Operators which is what made Google more accurate especially when searching for more esoteric things related to engineering
i want to go back when the internet was not netflix with more censorship
Well you guys lost that right when the Republicans sh*t canned Net Neutrality ….. You put the ISPs and big boys in control of what you can see or can’t see. It also allowed your ISP to spy on you and even throttle your speed.
I tried to warn people that would be the end result because that is EXACTLY what the Right Wing was angling for thinking it would go their way in controlling what you see. Obviously that backfired on them because they aren’t all that bright.
The Internet was specifically designed for Network Neutrality from Day One, I know because I was there commenting on the RFCs that set the original standards.
Moral of this story – Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it
net neutrality doesnt do anything in relation to what you are talking about, joe biden told the fcc recently to get complete and utter control of the internet including latency and despite being called a totalitarian power grab, it passed. Its amazing how full of sht you democrats are, if the internet was designed with net neutrality then why was it voted on you clown? Joe biden was caught colluding with social media companies and telling them who to ban. Elon Musk exposed how twitter was basically run by the government. You have no idea wtf you talking about.
Google is evil. It’s a promoted monopoly, even if you go to “alt” searches most of the time they get data from joogle. And duckduck is just another tribester owned fake alternative, that gives worse results most of the time. It’s no different anywhere else, the ever grasping hand in your pocket can’t stop itself. Monopolies under various guises are everywhere, syndicates, combines etc No surprises about joogle. If you’re on the “preferred” list you will get the traffic and promotion, and preferred is likely what you promote. Tribester values you’re good to go, owned by a monopoly, good to go all trusted aaa etc I think just buying your way in will get you more of course, so pay pay pay for subs to their various products etc JWO nonsense issues promoted good to go etc And ScAmazon is another major tribester monopoly, bug eyed traneeman nominal head etc
Well, the Quora and Reddit traffic increase isn’t really surprising. Google Search Engine has been a mess for quite some time now ever since they doubled down on E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness) in their algorithm in December of last year. The SE started failing to answer questions that aren’t explicitly stated in an article from a ‘trusty’ website. It struggles particularly hard with more complex questions that these ‘trusty’ websites don’t bother with because they don’t drive traffic.
So people added Quora or Reddit at the end of each question because those two websites have many people with actual expertise on the matter. If you can’t find your answer there you’re out of luck.
Whenever Google drops a Core update and messes up traffic, especially for big websites, they reassure content creators that it’s necessary quality filtering and things will get back to normal. Things never go back to normal. Big websites can adapt fast because they have a dedicated SEO team or hire an SEO agency. Smaller websites are f-ucked.
Google is also in the process of F-ing up Search Console. They keep removing useful information that could help identify issues with a website’s SEO, which was great for independent webmasters.
I do not use Google.
I used to use Google News for years because it allowed you to add and remove sources to curate your news feed. But then I noticed that it literally will not let you add sources that some consider/label “right wing”. And I’m talking about completely legitimate news sources.
That’s when I ditched Google News for my own curated RSS news feed.
Who would’ve thought that products of a company founded by pedophiles and run by a bunch of f*king r*tards could be a complete mess? 🙂
i have not used google for like 6-7 years now,it was bad then and now it’s even worse…just get off everything google thing and you are golden
Not just google, almost every tech company in the west is f*king it all up with their massive women and diversity hires
Once a company becomes too large they always become evil.
In google’s case, they always were
Use Brave and DuckDuckGo.
That’s what I did when YouTube started cracking down on ad blockers …. I also dropped Chrome and went into my Google account and deleted all my histories ….. If all the personal data they gathered and made money on it wasn’t enough to get YouTube ad free then screw them ….. Not to mention I own 4000 shares of Alphabet stock (Originally 100 shares of Google bought during the IPO with a 2 for 1 and a 20 for 1 split)
You’d think 4000 shares of Google/Alphabet stock would get you ad free YouTube …..