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Corporate Memphis is so awful.
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#12The fact that this is news, is news.
I was sure they announced Big Plans years ago to combat content farms, to the point of e.g. browser add-ons so you could report these things. Either they just didn't work and the content farms outsmarted them, or they stopped caring. But it does feel to me like Google was a lot stricter 5-10 years ago than they are now.
In the interim they tried to push AMP, but had to admit finally that it's more to keep people inside their ecosystem than make the web faster/better.
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#13We don't need an update. We need a rollback.
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#14It got so bad that I'm actually taking my own notes on topics again and trying to build up a personal knowledge database. Maybe it's not such a bad thing...
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#15We don't need an update. We need a rollback.
We need to roll back a lot more than just Google.
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#16Thanks Google. Now can we fix the recipes pages please. No one wants the back story for the "the best brownies", I want to know the ingredients, cooking temps (Celsius and Fahrenheit) and time.
Google doesn’t write recipes, dedicated and passionate cooks write blogs with recipes in them.
I guarantee you that none of them are aiming to provide just a grocery list or instructions, they definitely enjoy writing their story as well. They’re building their own cookbook essentially, not a bunch of lists.
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#17Thanks Google. Now can we fix the recipes pages please. No one wants the back story for the "the best brownies", I want to know the ingredients, cooking temps (Celsius and Fahrenheit) and time.
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#18We don't need an update. We need a rollback.
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#20Hopefully this helps when looking for genuine product reviews / suggestions. The only way to get half-decent reviews at the moment is to append "reddit" to your search query, otherwise you get pages full of comparatives that haven't tested any of the items they recommend.
And I'm afraid it's only a matter of time before Reddit stops caring and allows more and more bots, content farms, or paid posts on their platform.
I don’t know what “Reddit stops caring” means. Currently most moderation is done by an insular unpaid group of redditors. There is already lots of stealth promotion/ad posts, astroturfing, and trust issues. There is not inherent way to fix the inevitable breakdown, it’s a societal problem of greed and dishonesty, and you can’t easily just “ban bots”.