Davey Alba
@daveyalba
@technology reporter covering Google and big tech / https://daveyalba.com / NO LONGER HERE, FIND ME ON BLUESKY https://bsky.app/profile/davey.bsky.social
And its a wrap on the DOJ's Google search antitrust case, as closing arguments end. Next stop likely August with a ruling that could force the company to sell Chrome, license critical data to rivals, and bar $20b + in annual payments to Apple w @daveyalba bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Bloomberg @daveyalba just reported on this exhibit two weeks after it posted which is great and a reminder to everyone there is a lot of important evidence still being analyzed in Google and Facebook court cases. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
I assume it's from this exhibit which also caught my eyes in a big way. justice.gov/atr/media/1399…
US v. Google: Google says its controls for publishers to opt out of AI training only cover work by Google DeepMind, not training by its other units for search (@daveyalba / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250502/p30#a25…
Source: Alphabet's Q1 profit was boosted by $8B in unrealized gains from an investment in SpaceX; Alphabet has been a major SpaceX investor since at least 2015 (@daveyalba / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250424/p43#a25…
i truly admire @parismartineau's and @mjnblack's reporting so much and hope some smart editor snaps both of them up ASAP
after ~5 years at The Information, i've been laid off, alongside 2/3rds of our features team. i am devastated. if you're looking for an experienced investigative reporter with a knack for producing high impact features about tech and business: [email protected] DMs open
“The AI-generated answers have caused traffic to independent sites to plummet […] That’s disrupting a delicate symbiotic relationship that’s existed for years: if businesses create good content, Google sends them traffic.” ~ @daveyalba @byJuliaLove 🔗 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
AI is killing creative professions, the open web, & the environment while being wrong most of the time. I went to Google to talk about the destruction of small publishers. They said they would do better, but it’s gotten worse. Bloomberg told our story. bloom.bg/43Jmzk3
Google Al Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling 'Betrayed' bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
really great article by @daveyalba and julia love
As Google's AI overviews cut off websites from traffic, some publishers are shutting down. This could "eventually degrade the quality of information Google can access for its search results - and to feed its AI answers". Blogs needed as fodder for AI🐯 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Google says AI Overviews drive more traffic to publishers. But it has never shared data to back up that claim. @daveyalba & I spoke to 25 creators who painted a very different picture. Several have gone out of business. One is on food stamps. Our latest: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Last year, we sounded the alarm about Google's latest wave of algorithm updates killing small websites like HouseFresh. This week, we talked to @Bloomberg about the negative impact Google's new AI search results are having on what's left of the independent web 👇
“Because Google’s AI is trained on the web, its answers are a kind of remixed version of the web itself, while also distorting the economy that gave rise to the modern internet by potentially cutting the sites out of the equation entirely.” ~ @daveyalba 🔗…
Google Search ruled the web for 25 years. Can it evolve for the AI era? On this episode of the Big Take podcast, @daveyalba and @byJuliaLove take us inside Google's high-risk revamp of its core product trib.al/uycr7lk
OK, stop and read this article. Very important for anyone in Search -> A profile of veteran Googler Liz Reid, who became Head of Search in March 2024 and rolled out major updates like AI Overviews, as Google competes with ChatGPT "Supporting publishers has always been…