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Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by rikudou@lemmings.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I guess we all kinda knew that, but it's always nice to have a study backing your opinions.

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[–] solarvector@lemmy.zip 161 points 10 months ago (15 children)

What fight? Google is making money, and nearly everyone is playing Google's game following their tune. Google is definitely not losing.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 118 points 10 months ago (10 children)

A lot of people dont remember pre-google these days.

Normal search engines worked, but Google was better results.

Now that every website is gaming SEO and the top half of search results is ads that pay to be first...

Google isn't that much better. I went to DuckDuckGo recently. The only thing Google does better is local results. But that's because Google always knows where I am and where I've been.

There's no longer a reason to use Google as a search engine, except habit.

Pretty much same with chrome

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember pre-Google. There were a few human curated sites back then (like DMoz and Yahoo). I'm thinking that might be a way to combat spam and AI sites. As a side bonus, maybe it will help de-Google the planet.

I'm looking for a Wikipedia-but-for-the-web, where human curators find real web content for me. I found Curlie.org, and tried to sign up for it, but never got a response back on my sign-ups. Still I'm hopeful for something like that.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yahoo was DMOZ (its directory used DMOZ data).

DMOZ had 100k volunteers curating the content at some point, and had a whole complex process to prevent abuse and so on. It will be hard to get going again.

But yeah, who would've thought that a mere decade after being discontinued it would become relevant again.

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