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Google is (still) losing the spam wars to zombie news-brands (pluralistic.net)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's amazing how bad it is now with SEO-optimisation. Most people (myself included) put "reddit" into the search query to clean things up in the hopes that we'll get something other than an ad-serve/affiliate-sales-linked website, but this really opens you up to being exposed to astro-turfing.

Edit: Really interested to hear if other people have better ideas than this.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

If you're actually interested in results from Reddit, you should put in site:reddit.com. Otherwise, you're just encouraging/rewarding sites that use that term for their SEO spam.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Sure, I do ignore those sites but this is a good way of doing it.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Try using before:2023 if you don't need the absolute most recent info

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Hadn't thought of that. Unfortunately generally I'm looking at current products/news more often than not. Makes me worried about the whole dead internet theory if I'm being honest.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Google juices reddit posts now so no need to throw that shit in anymore. There were recent news articles about it coming from the antitrust case against the company. Now many folks use "-reddit" for how bad reddit is these days clogging up search.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Google will have to resort to human curation of search results at some point.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago

Given that Google search only returns like 9 websites now, shouldn't be too hard.

Google sucks now, use duckduckgo or something else.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Been using Duckduckgo for a few years now and found it very good, although it's also on the downward SEO ruined path. Have tried Google occasionally and wow is it juat completely full of crap.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

We'll go full circle and return to site directories.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Web Rings ftw

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

They won't pay for that, they would probably rather spend money on developing AI curation.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yes but if they want an AI to index it, first it would have to figure out what an index is ;-)

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

SEO in combination with AI is cancer!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

They do this on purpose. Google now only keep enough engineer to keep it search afloat. Everything else focus on ads and dark pattern.

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