Search engine results are getting worse, research confirms
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'Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam,' says study
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I thought it was normal for Google search results to suck.

@doublejay1999@lemmy.world
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Search engine are pretty much over. They ate themselves

SEO destroyed the search providers, and now that search is useless, seo has become useless.

I haven’t used Google for awhile now. It just became an ad-ridden hellhole.

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Do people not have ad blockers anymore?

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That’s not what we’re talking about. Ad blockers don’t do anything to fix Google’s search algorithm

@Kbobabob@lemmy.world
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I understand the post OP but I’m replying to a comment. Specifically this part…

It just became an ad-ridden hellhole.

@lntl@lemmy.ml
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FCC should impose regulations on search providers to make searching with Google’s competition more cumbersome and less useful. You know, ‘level the playing field’

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I think it would be enough if other search providers would be required to give a portion of their profit from each search to Google.

@lntl@lemmy.ml
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sometimes i think I’m smarter than i am… you’re a goddamn genius

Here’s my theory… Google wants to artificially fuck up it’s search functionality. It wants to offer good performance for a fee. And it’s going to be doing that by giving it’s own AI the correct filters while at the same time tripping every other AI capable of searching the net such that the other AI results become garbage and only the Google one works correctly. Anyway that’s my conspiracy theory, fuck Google with a bunch of sharp forks.

It’s much simpler than that. Google is an ad company, not a search company. SEO spam gives them ad clicks just the same as quality content, if not more so. As long as they don’t became bad enough that everybody switches to the competition, they simply don’t have to care.

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SEO spam gives them ad clicks

It does? I thought the point of SEO was to show up in search results without having to pay for keyword placement.

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It’s not about the ads on Google.com, but the ads on the SEO sites themselves, those are also served by Google. Ever heard of DoubleClick? That’s also Google. If Google Search would give you good clean non-commercial sites without ads, they would lose money.

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