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Musk’s Plans to Take a Chain Saw to Bureaucracy

2025/2/28
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Tim Higgins
一名影响力大的科技和商业记者,特别关注科技行业与政治的交叉领域。
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Charlotte Gartenberg: 本期节目讨论了谷歌调整产品评论网站搜索排名规则对新闻媒体的影响,以及埃隆·马斯克在特朗普政府中“削减官僚”的计划。 Alexandra Bruel: 谷歌更新了网站声誉滥用政策,从搜索结果中删除了某些内容,即使有出版商的监督。这一变化是为了提高内容质量,但对依赖谷歌流量的新闻媒体的盈利模式造成了冲击。许多产品评论网站的盈利能力因此受到严重影响。谷歌认为此举是为了提升用户体验,但此举也引发了争议。 Tim Higgins: 埃隆·马斯克的政府效率部门(DOGE)正在进行大刀阔斧的改革,包括削减预算、裁员和取消部门。马斯克使用强硬手段,例如发送邮件要求员工汇报工作,并通过在公开场合挥舞电锯来表达其“削减官僚”的决心。他计划使用人工智能技术来审查政府支出和法规,但这一做法也引发了争议和法律诉讼。马斯克的行动风格与华盛顿的传统做法大相径庭,并受到了两极分化的评价。特朗普总统公开支持马斯克的改革。

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Google's recent policy changes concerning product review sites have significantly affected their profitability. This change, aimed at improving content quality, has made it difficult for many sites to generate revenue from e-commerce.
  • Google's new site reputation abuse policy restricts certain content from its search results.
  • Publishers relied heavily on Google traffic for revenue from product review sites.
  • The policy change has made it nearly impossible for many product review websites to generate revenue.

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The head of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE) ,says he is bringing a tech upgrade to the federal government. WSJ columnist Tim Higgins joins us for an update on Elon Musk’s first 100 days) in the Trump White House. Plus, Google changed its rules) around how product-review sites appear in its search engine. WSJ reporter Alexandra Bruell explains how it’s impacting a once-lucrative corner of news media. Charlotte Gartenberg hosts.

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