One Google exec recently said the web is “thriving.”

For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline” (with regard to advertising, kinda-sorta)

  • Blemgo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I think the term you are looking for is “Deep Net”, although it originally meant websites that weren’t indexed by web searches.

    • EnsignWashout@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      What I’m hearing is: I can replace saying “I have a dumb little WordPress blog that no one reads” with "I host a part of the ‘Deep Net’.

      Sweet.