Initial Crtisisms On Google Search Generative Experience & How Google Responded To Them

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Earlier this week, Google began rolling out its Google Search Generative Experience slowly to the general public.

Danny Sullivan has addressed a few public complaints and criticisms of this new search experience, Google’s Search Liaison.

Google’s John Mueller also answered some questions.

In this article, we have picked out those complaints and responses.

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Feedback About Plagiarised Content

This is one of many examples I am finding but something that is a bit alarming about SGE is that it seems to directly plagiarize content.

I thought generative AI almost always switched words around. I'm finding many examples where the answer is pulled from the page verbatim… pic.twitter.com/u9aTMaxcYU
— Lily Ray 😏 (@lilyraynyc) May 26, 2023

Here Is One Of The Popular Threads:

Soooooo what are we supposed to do when our words are plagiarized without direct attribution? I know this is something other SEOs have already seen. But when it's a direct quote, it should be clearer than just the suggested articles off to the side. pic.twitter.com/3QHgxle0R1
— Rebekah Edwards | Content-Led SEO (@rebekah_creates) May 26, 2023

Feedback About Privacy

🚨 Reminder not to put any private or confidential information into SGE 🚨

Your input data is likely used to further train SGE and could surface in future results. pic.twitter.com/F4utXTuBos
— Britney Muller 🇺🇦 (@BritneyMuller) May 25, 2023

Queries Specific To Google Search Console

It's still early days 🙂
— John Mueller (official) · #StaplerLife (@JohnMu) May 26, 2023

Location Related Queries

Country-based roll-outs can be frustrating, sorry! It's (hopefully) not going to go away, time to be patient :-).
— John Mueller (official) · #StaplerLife (@JohnMu) May 26, 2023