Honestly, SEO broke things first. The fact that the mountains of crap became impossible to sift through is what opened the door for LLMs to grab market share in the first place.
Really, as soon as Google became an ad company, the writing was on the wall.
Maybe, but it is fair to say, everything that makes it easier to find what you want… makes the internet more usable. In areas where finding what you want wasn’t terrible, when they impliment AI, most people hate it.
SEO became a thing when business started making its way onto the web. There was no profit motive when the web was an academic platform, corporate presence online ended that. SEO was a symptom to that arrival.
Honestly, SEO broke things first. The fact that the mountains of crap became impossible to sift through is what opened the door for LLMs to grab market share in the first place.
Really, as soon as Google became an ad company, the writing was on the wall.
Even without SEO, the public would’ve jumped on LLMs just the same
Maybe, but it is fair to say, everything that makes it easier to find what you want… makes the internet more usable. In areas where finding what you want wasn’t terrible, when they impliment AI, most people hate it.
SEO became a thing when business started making its way onto the web. There was no profit motive when the web was an academic platform, corporate presence online ended that. SEO was a symptom to that arrival.