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

submitted 9 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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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 114 points 9 months ago (3 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

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 9 months ago

The main thing that got me switching to Google back then wasn't the better results, but their promise not to collect or use our data.

That all changed after 9/11, but by then Google had grown so huge it was hard to avoid them.

Even so, I still went back to Webcrawler and the others quite a lot and never really consistently used one search engine faithfully.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 7 points 9 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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

I need to rollback to Google from DDG because the latter seems to refuse to understand that I want to find specific words with ""

And DDG isn't perfect either, I need to add Reddit as well more than I'd like to.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Google ignores "" too these days.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Really? I haven't noticed that...