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[Retro Dodo]Google is killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites (retrododo.com)

submitted 7 months ago by TORFdot0@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I know that the source is more focused on retro gaming as a topic but the topic of this post is Google and its pagerank algorithm which is more appropriate for this community.

We’ve all noticed the enshittification of Google Search over the last few months, but it’s still hard to hear how it is affecting content creators and putting them out of business so we can see 20 AI generated spam pages about whatever our query is.

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[–] st3ph3n@midwest.social 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

While Google certainly has a lot of responsibility for how shit their search results have become and the effects they have on website operators, the SEO industry can all go eat a giant bag of dicks for being the driving force behind making search results worthless trash.

[–] Newtra@pawb.social 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Google also is responsible for the SEO industry. They made ads hugely profitable, then started directing traffic to sites that serve more of their ads, regardless of quality.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Google also is responsible for the SEO industry

Painfully accurate