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More website owners say Google killed their businesses.

Here at The Verge we’ve extensively covered how Google giveth and Google taketh away — website traffic, that is. Independent sites in particular are vulnerable to traffic dips that they may never recover from, and Google’s constantly shifting search algorithms mean website operators are forced to play a game of cat and mouse. Now they’re up against AI search results.

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