My Life Got 100x Better When I Stopped Thinking About Google

bookofjoe 19 points 11 comments March 13, 2026
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puskavi

Mr. Rossmann had the same problem, and he had claude fix it and it supposedly worked.

tristor

This article was definitely written by ChatGPT. I think it's a story anyone who's ever shipped a website that they expected the public to make use of has experienced, but it's also light on the details of how they moved past Google organic search traffic.

pop_calc

Pangram suggests the is fully AI generated

reactordev

AI Slop aside. If you’re sole funnel is just Google, you are basically praying for your business to launch.

linkregister

I wonder which LLM model has the tic of saying individual words in their own sentence for emphasis. The outcome of this technique is the same as just bolding all the text. I understand why the author, an apparent native Dutch speaker, has an LLM write his prose. The actual content is information-lite; the author never explains anything beyond deciding to no longer consider google.com referrers when deriving success metrics. Maybe the author got more engagement through email? More business offers? It's left as a mystery to the reader.

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