Socher: Google deranked You.com across all sites, causing immediate traffic drop
Richard Socher · Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Aug 18, 2023 · at 37:53
Richard Socher, founder and CEO of You.com, discusses distribution challenges and Google's impact on search startups.
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“We just got deranked in all our sites from Google and saw like a drop right away.”
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