> Removing the incentives so that we are back in 1990s internet, where by the way lots of quality blogs existed without ads?
What are you imagining would incentivize those vs today? The reality is those blogs still all exist, they're just harder to find in all the noise. You're mourning something that isn't gone.
Meanwhile ChatGPTBing will be happy to talk to you about quality subjects, sorry we don't search blogs anymore, though.
You are right, the non-seo-spam pages aren't gone (but hard to find in all the spam, which is what GP is "mourning"). So, the incentive is the same for those, but the incentive for seo-spam pages goes down. Which might improve the signal-to-noise ratio.
What are you imagining would incentivize those vs today? The reality is those blogs still all exist, they're just harder to find in all the noise. You're mourning something that isn't gone.
Meanwhile ChatGPTBing will be happy to talk to you about quality subjects, sorry we don't search blogs anymore, though.