# AI users - what's your plan for when the price goes up?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
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**Created:** [October 22, 2026, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-users-whats-your-plan-for-when-the-price-goes-up/1034080 "2026-10-22T22:28:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-users-whats-your-plan-for-when-the-price-goes-up/1034080/49 "2026-10-27T02:14:15Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> The web crawling bit is still largely the same. The ranking (which was always the strong feature of Google’s search) is using Gemini now.

Come to think of it, that might explain the behavior I noticed a few weeks ago (which is still going on):

> [@Why would Google have delisted the Cleveland Public Library?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-google-have-delisted-the-cleveland-public-library/1033659):
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> I first noticed an issue with this a week or so ago. I Googled “Cleveland Public Library”, and although the results contained sub-sites for various branches of the library, none of them pointed to [https://cpl.org/](https://cpl.org/) , the library’s main page. Today, I searched again, and now almost all of the hits from that domain are removed, with the sole survivor being a French translation of the main page. There are still plenty of hits about the library, and most of those hits themselves have a link to [htt…](https://cpl.org/)

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