The last couple of years have seen renewed interest in the search space and a lot of new comers in the market targeting the content search vacuum left behind by Google. Looks like they are finally waking up to the threat and ramping up their public relations. Too late Google, too late. Your veiled, corporate attempt at building a narrative around your product is not going to work. I have burnt many a neuron over the years using your product over and acquired an unrelenting PTSD from you. Thankfully I have found a cure and can breakup with you finally. You have a good one.
More content by people, for people in Search
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#22Thanks 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.
Or, more likely, they are just SEO optimising by providing a lot of prose (which Google has historically prioritised in search rankings) - the same way as all those AI-generated article summaries on the astroturfing sites
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#23>Better ranking of original, quality content
Hah. Just another day, someone sent me this link[1] which took images and text from my page[2] for the Google query "linux check disk space". Here is the thing my page doesn't even appear on Google. The ripped page points to the source[2] and has a link back to the original images. These scammers know how to game Google with their AI-driven sites, and they adopt it faster than Google rolling out new changes. I hope Google fix this issue.
[1] Spam/scam page - http://blog.imm.cnr.it/content/linux-check-disk-space-comman...
[2] Original my page published on 2016-01-23 - https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-check-disk-space-command...
[3] Google search query - https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+check+disk+space
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#24Thanks 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.
I am sorry, but I believe you are mistaken. Recipe sharing worked one way for all of history until it became profitable to game the search engines by adding story-like content.
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#25Great content is often found in pages without their ADs. I don't buy it: they will hardly leave so many dollars on the table.
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#26Thanks 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.
I _think_ OP is referring to the fact that most sites are forced into writing really long form posts because the format is "encouraged" by Google.
I don't know the ins and outs but my understanding is that if you don't follow the Google format then you recipe drops way down in Google search results.
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#27Thanks 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.
Google created the incentives that led to the current state of recipe pages.
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#28https://devrant.com/rants/4578894/holy-shit-google-nobody-li...
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#29Cool, so will the relevant wiki page, which is almost certainly both the most linked to and most desired page for almost all "thing" searches, go back to being result #1 instead of buried under content farms, copyspam, and Medium trash?
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#30Hopefully 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’m mostly worried that they’ll disable the “old.reddit.com” trick to get the old layout. Finding information in reddit threads is a complete chore with the new design, which only a few comments displayed at a time.