{"id":24499,"date":"2024-05-06T17:13:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=24499"},"modified":"2024-05-06T17:13:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T17:13:22","slug":"google-gemini-stops-linking-to-most-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=24499","title":{"rendered":"Google Gemini stops linking to most sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A year ago, Google Gemini (formerly known as Bard) started linking sources as citations, and we were happy.  Well, it seems that in most cases, Gemini has stopped linking to sources. <\/p>\n<p>I think this started about a week ago, but I&#8217;m not sure when.  I noticed this on Wednesday of last week and then Glenn Gabe posted it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glenngabe\/status\/1786366764776837195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a> too and i thought oh wait did gemini really stop connecting?  Honestly, I don&#8217;t use Gemini much&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, these were the citations:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-bard-citations-links-1684191783-1714742432.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-bard-citations-links-1684191783-1714742432.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Links Bard Citations 1684191783\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what it looks like now:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-gemini-no-links-1714742470.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-gemini-no-links-1714742470.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Gemini without links\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although I was able to activate some links, maybe Google will just link to Google?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/gemini-links-1714742528.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/gemini-links-1714742528.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Twin Links\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In other cases, Google may display the domain name or site name:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/gemini-site-reference-1714742574.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/gemini-site-reference-1714742574.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Gemini site reference\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It also just lists the source name, in other variations:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/gemini-links-name-list-1714994117.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/gemini-links-name-list-1714994117.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"List of Gemini link names\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When did this change?<\/p>\n<p>I know Glenn referenced Gemini by saying, &#8220;I apologize for not including links in my previous reply. Due to my security guidelines, I cannot provide URLs directly. However, I can provide search queries that will take you to the articles relevant&#8221;.  But is it twins hallucinatory or is it the truth?<\/p>\n<p>I should add that you can click the Google favicon to get links and have Google verify with Search:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/check-with-google-gemini-1714999806.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/check-with-google-gemini-1714999806.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Check with Google Gemini\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discussion forum a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glenngabe\/status\/1786366764776837195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-gemini-stops-linking-37332.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, Google Gemini (formerly known as Bard) started linking sources as citations, and we were happy. Well, it seems that in most cases, Gemini has stopped linking to sources. I think this started about a week ago, but I&#8217;m not sure when. I noticed this on Wednesday of last week and then Glenn Gabe posted it X too and i thought oh wait did gemini really stop connecting? Honestly, I don&#8217;t use Gemini&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24501,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24499\/revisions\/24501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}