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Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Kagi (although recent drama leaves me soured)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't fathom paying to have your search history catalogued in correlation to your payment info. This will end as it always does, either hacked or enshittified.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The fundamental difference is that Kagi is making money from having the better product, not from serving more/better ads.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Love Kagi. What happened with recent drama? Must have missed that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Kagi has started using search results from Brave's search index. The LGBT community disapproved of this because of past homophobic actions by Brave's CEO Brendan Eich.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh, that. Yeah, I'm not personally worried that they used it very lightly as one of a dozen sources and then stopped.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The problem was mainly their questionable response

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Fool me once...

Twitter has a similar problem. The more the CEO injects personal politics into the function of the site, the less confidence people have that a new search won't be fucked with. Whatever you might say about Google, Bing, and Yahoo, their owners have at least kept their politics closer to the chest.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago

Thats a terrible reason to not use something that works well though. I mean the founder or CEO of any major bank is probably a shit person with bad takes like racism but does it make their banking service any less useful?