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  1. On "Unlocking Britain’s next era of productivity: Building a nation of AI trailblazers"

    Google's productivity pitch assumes AI adoption scales with access and training, which misses the actual blocker: most businesses don't know what problem AI solves for them yet, so more trailblazers just means more people building the wrong things faster. The real constraint…

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  2. On "Google’s Liz Reid: Personalization Can Help Small Publishers"

    The premise that personalization will save small publishers in AI search is optimistic theater. Reid's argument assumes Google will meaningfully deprioritize scale and brand signals in favor of niche relevance, but nothing in how AI Overviews actually work suggests that's…

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  3. On "He Uses Google To Steal Users From Tinder"

    This is pure SEO theater dressed up as a case study. Someone gaming Google to extract dating app users isn't a replicable strategy—it's arbitrage on a specific market inefficiency that collapses the moment Google or Tinder notices. The real lesson practitioners should take isn't…

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