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You missed the expertsexchange era when they spammed all of Google ^^
expertsexchange is on of my favorite ambiguous site names
Well you wouldn't want any amateurs doing that for sure.
Google Search Is Dying (2022)
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Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)
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If you look at their software dev efforts it should be painfully obvious why they're not a powerhouse of anything :-) They had great product-market fit early on, were boosted by YN, and inertia is a huge thing.
Yeah, it's an absurdly poorly managed company.
Which is why it's still useful.
Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)
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Today, ChatGPT gives you an instant step by step guide which may or may not be correct but will likely get you there.
User: How do I fix large pdf files? ChatGPT: delete system32
You no longer have any broken large pdf files, ergo the problem is solved.
Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)
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I disagree that whatever ranking system google uses will just be gamed to the same extent. If google downgraded the rank of pages with lots of ads and trackers it would substantially reduce the incentive to game the system, the reason it won’t is because most of those pages are running Adsense so there’s every incentive for google to keep the status quo.
If you provide less monetisation for content creators, you end up with less content too. This is not as simple as you think…
We can't even answer out fucking phones because of these people and an ad blocker is pretty much a requirement to make the web even remotely usable.
They're already pushing out content to replace it with more fucking ads!
There is legitimately nothing good about them. At all.
Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)
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Limit your search to Reddit, HN and/or Stack Exchange! I really loved the first paragraph of the article about Reddit: "Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit". I want to add this that just happened at my company, that shows really bad execution on the Reddit side. Bad as if the current Reddit management is surfing tiny waves in some paradise. Ou…
So, assuming that this "mismanagement" is not just happening in the crypto space, but across the board in other spaces too, they are missing out on short-term money, but are more valuable for the searches that users are now doing (including me). So.. is it actually bad execution?
The mismanagement is not between quotes since all compliance was filled and acknowledged.
Could you please elaborate on your question? Since our issue was supposely solved filling all the requirements there is no difference about the different spaces. This is bad execution by the book.
Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)
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Maybe I am wrong about this, and maybe the SEO junk sites would find a way to evolve, but what I really want from google is a plonk button so I can have a personal kill file for sites that I never want to see again.
Google allowing the blacklisting of sites with lots of ads on them and using google analytics? They have enough information when yiu clock back and select a different result. And this hasnt killed SEO spam.
That's because Google is an ad company. They will never be part of the solution.
Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)
#187The worst is the SEO pages, especially for popular how-to topics. Every single first page result will be a page that has expanded what used to be said in bullet point form, into a 1500 word essay that you must now slog through in order to get the information you need. And this is by necessity, because Google values prose over bullet points. The majority of things that come up on search nowadays consist of computer-ge…
Limit your search to Reddit, HN and/or Stack Exchange! I really loved the first paragraph of the article about Reddit: "Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit". I want to add this that just happened at my company, that shows really bad execution on the Reddit side. Bad as if the current Reddit management is surfing tiny waves in some paradise. Ou…
To me all signs point to Reddit never having been a commercial venture, but rather an influence and propaganda machine for United States government agencies. So they already have their budget paid.
Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)
#188In the German market for any product related query where you want a product comparison or test, you get results from 2 companies, which are in the business to place multiple very well SEO optimized pages on popular high quality websites (mostly newspapers). i.e.: https://www.welt.de/vergleich/stabstaubsauger/ https://www.krone.at/vergleich/staubsauger-test/ https://www.stern.de/vergleich/staubsauger/ These pages are…
> have zero affiliate links (as they are hidden behind javascript)
We have different definitions of zero I think...
Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)
#189The worst is the SEO pages, especially for popular how-to topics. Every single first page result will be a page that has expanded what used to be said in bullet point form, into a 1500 word essay that you must now slog through in order to get the information you need. And this is by necessity, because Google values prose over bullet points. The majority of things that come up on search nowadays consist of computer-ge…
A few years back I heard a startup pitch for an application that would crawl all those recipe short stories and extract the recipe for you.
Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)
#190The entire of Google is dying. Starting with search, the moment you turn off your adblocker you will see why. It's literally a complete crapfest of badly moderated advertising and ranking manipulation. Then there's the default Android experience which literally shovels garbage down you with the Google app and via a version of Chrome with no ad blocking capability. The www is unusable unless you install another browser. Then all their immature web based apps propositions which people are finally tiring of due to the bugginess and being almost completely unusable if you're offline. Then the invasive tracking and privacy issues. You can tell how bad it's getting because nearly all my searches suggest autocomple with "reddit" on the end because people are more likely to get human generated results. And of course the ramped up YT advertising recently.
It's a classic death spiral.
They don't have a product other than crap search and invasive data collection.