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As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful, what happens to SEO?

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Re: As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful, what happens to SEO?

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Post by nicbou »

LtWorf wrote: post #123
pclmulqdq wrote: post #88

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The trick is that Google actually works great. It works better than before. It just doesn't work in the way that we (highly educated and technical people) want. We all laughed at our parents and grandparents for typing full sentence questions into the search bar in 2005 instead of carefully crafted incantations with keywords, "site:" labels and other such things. Young people often use full sentences today because th…

If you call "working" showing me an endless stream of blogs of some dude, an automatically translated russian clone of stackoverflow, a completely unrelated stackoverflow question, above the actual official documentation that it should be showing me… sure then it works.

uBlocklist removes a lot of the crud, thankfully

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Post by huytersd »

fsckboy wrote: post #38

I'm old, very educated, very experienced, technical, etc. My assistant is young and none of the above. She finds everything very quickly through internet searches. However-it-is that google is interpreting search terms, that's how her brain works. I told her about a house I drove by that looked like a cool Halloween house. While I was still telling her basics about it, she was already pulling up pictures of it. I had…

You’re old? Your other comments have you railing on “normies”. Not to mention your username…

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Post by reactordev »

ravenstine wrote: post #304
reactordev wrote: post #200

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You are using it right however your bias is evident on the results. A 20-something will just scroll through the blog content to get to the recipe at the end. No huss, no fuss. In fact, they’ll open multiple tabs of search results to compare recipes in the time it takes you to gawk at the fact that you have to scroll to the end. Where is the recipe? Why is there a video? Table of contents? No, a 20-something will just…

This is pure victim blaming.

If that's your take, it says more about you. We are ALL victims, to something. Sometimes it's our own fault (IP4), sometimes it's not (adtech). Next time, if you feel like a comment is negative or gas lighting or victim blaming or cancel-culture-worthy, you should state your reasons why you feel this way. Instead of stating your opinion as fact. No matter how right you think you are, there are always other perspectives (Israel/Palestine).

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Post by lobocinza »

pclmulqdq wrote: post #88
fsckboy wrote: post #38

I'm old, very educated, very experienced, technical, etc. My assistant is young and none of the above. She finds everything very quickly through internet searches. However-it-is that google is interpreting search terms, that's how her brain works. I told her about a house I drove by that looked like a cool Halloween house. While I was still telling her basics about it, she was already pulling up pictures of it. I had…

The trick is that Google actually works great. It works better than before. It just doesn't work in the way that we (highly educated and technical people) want. We all laughed at our parents and grandparents for typing full sentence questions into the search bar in 2005 instead of carefully crafted incantations with keywords, "site:" labels and other such things. Young people often use full sentences today because th…

It doesn't work like ChatGPT at all.

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Post by john-radio »

> Maybe an SEO professional would get attacked by a gigantic, prehistoric-looking reptile right there in front of me.

Props to the author for having the ability to bang out her damn essay without getting bogged down in every little rabbit hole. If she were prone to compulsively editing-instead-of-writing she probably would have found out that alligators are not just prehistoric-looking; they're prehistoric itself. They appeared "94 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous" (wiki) and in fact their clade, Crocodilia, is only surviving sibling clade of Dinosauria, and so crocodiles & alligators are the closest living relatives of birds.

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Post by genewitch »

AniseAbyss wrote: post #66
fsckboy wrote: post #38

I'm old, very educated, very experienced, technical, etc. My assistant is young and none of the above. She finds everything very quickly through internet searches. However-it-is that google is interpreting search terms, that's how her brain works. I told her about a house I drove by that looked like a cool Halloween house. While I was still telling her basics about it, she was already pulling up pictures of it. I had…

I always like to talk about how much I hate advertising but when I need a Thai restaurant Google Maps has my back. But I'm also old and remember that the yellow pages used to bring in billions of revenue. Have things really changed on a fundamental level?

When i'm in my car, the only thing i use google maps for is "yellow pages" - get me the phone number, and about 20% of the time, the hours of operation.

In fact, when i am at home, and i need a phone number, i go to google maps. But i do use the maps as maps when i am not in my car.

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Post by genewitch »

gretch wrote: post #184
freediver wrote: post #127

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> Most people don't know and don't care. Yet. Time is the enemy of ad-supported business models.

> Time is the enemy of Time is literally the enemy of everything. The universe will experience heat death. The sun burns out. Nations will fall. You’ll die of old age. The assertion you made is actually the most milquetoast safest prediction that anyone can make about the ad business and it’s obvious to everyone. The thing that actually matters is “when?”

"Man drinks like that, and doesn't eat, he is going to die."

"When?"

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Post by 7speter »

charlie0 wrote: post #216
7speter wrote: post #186

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We have google bard and chatgpt. We should have old google too.

Kagi? Personally, I use mostly ChatGPT, but if I wasn't using that I'd be using Kagi or something like it.

You use mostly ChatGPT for finding information? When I use it I still double check it's output with a google or duckduckgo search, if I don't something I know is outright wrong.
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