this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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It all of a sudden became TERRIBLE and now I can't find anything? When did this happen? Why did this happen?

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Define "sudden".

This has been a progressively worsening problem for a good while now.

To be fair to Google, it's not entirely their fault, there's a whole industry now that's entire purpose is to fuck up the results. But even so, Google has absolutelly lost what made it useful. It's far too concerned with try to curate for you instead of just doing damn search for the words. That helps them get more bullshit and some ads in there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you explain a little what you mean by “a whole industry now that’s entire purpose is to fuck up the results”? I’ve never heard of that before and it sounds alarming to say the least

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm assuming they're talking about SEO(search engine optimization). There's companies that offer it as a service to boost websites rankings so they are closer to the top.

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