The extreme favoring of large and commercial sites isn't a new thing. It's one of the reasons why Google search results became so unhelpful to me years ago.
Independent publishers are being demoted to give way to big sites on Google
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Re: Independent publishers are being demoted to give way to big sites on Google
#12This is because Google is double dealing, they are selling both side of the transaction, on the search side they have side bar ads and in search result ads, but on the destination, they also sell the ad impressions. So they are using their monopoly power to make money on both search and the display on the destination. So they have a huge incentive to push sites with lots of pages, more opps to get ad clicks on those…
I'd guess it's more because Google's search is heavily pressured by the AI-generated sites, and Google is trying to depress anything which might be described as "a small superset of the AI-generated sites".
Re: Independent publishers are being demoted to give way to big sites on Google
#13...hence why its becoming a habit for me to add a "reddit" after anything I'm searching on Google now.