I hate SEO. Google's ranking algorithm is basically an accretion of scar tissue built from years of SEO bullshit mitigations. If you make a ranking algorithm that does right by the user, and you're successful, it won't be long before SEOs come along and poison the well.
How SEO Ruined the Internet
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
Currently page 2 on Google. To be fair, "SEO ruined content" is a pretty specific search string and doesn't even show up in the results that out-rank this submission. This comment specifically talks about "SEO ruined content" and is, correctly, a good results candidate.
>Currently page 2 on Google. And now on first page
5th result.
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This is sooo true, every time i look for a recipe online it's all i ever see.
There's a Chrome extension to fix that: https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter > This Chrome browser extension helps cut through to the chase when browsing food blogs. It is born out of my frustration in having to scroll through a prolix life story before getting to the recipe card that I really want to check out.
Glad to hear this exists, but is there anything like it for Firefox?
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#204not only was this entirely predictable, it was actually predicted.
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#205Google also has reduced its memory by a great extent. Searches run many years ago which turned up results from the early 90s on return nothing now.
This is the result of Google trying to compete with Facebook. The search results page is their answer to the news feed.
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#206> erasing the past
Wouldn't it make sense to archive the old articles and put no-crawl rule on them? Deleting just seems extreme no matter how you look at it. That being said - content that is controlled by such people is probably not worth keeping.
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a Chrome extension to fix that: https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter > This Chrome browser extension helps cut through to the chase when browsing food blogs. It is born out of my frustration in having to scroll through a prolix life story before getting to the recipe card that I really want to check out.
Glad to hear this exists, but is there anything like it for Firefox?
Most Chrome extensions can now be run on Firefox without alterations.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter...
Re: How SEO Ruined the Internet
#208It kind of ruined content too. Why it ruined content? You are not the only one that is searching for the answer to that question. Keep reading to know why SEO ruined content. Many people think that SEO ruined content, in this post, we are goin to explain why SEO ruined content. When you finish reading this post, you will know why SEO ruined content. In the last years we have observed a grown in the quantity of conten…
Every time I land on websites that have such content I am wondering why anybody would want that kind of traffic.
I mean, don't they have server costs? It's like they own an infinite amount of money bucket that constantly gets refilled somehow.
Why are advertisers even paying them for such impressions? Are they so ridiculously retarded in their business model? Can we all hurt advertisers by setting up a website like this?
Re: How SEO Ruined the Internet
#209It kind of ruined content too. Why it ruined content? You are not the only one that is searching for the answer to that question. Keep reading to know why SEO ruined content. Many people think that SEO ruined content, in this post, we are goin to explain why SEO ruined content. When you finish reading this post, you will know why SEO ruined content. In the last years we have observed a grown in the quantity of conten…
This is sooo true, every time i look for a recipe online it's all i ever see.
My wife recently sent me a recipe that had a link right at the top: "Jump to recipe". It was amazing :)
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#210I really dislike posts like this on HN. It’s essentially whining. The author does not suggest any alternative, does not offer any ideas of their own, and just laments the state of the world. Instead let’s upvote articles on how to build search engines, how search indexing could be improved, how Google’s search works, etc.
Why does an article have to do both: raise the problem and provide a fix for it? Do you also expect journalists to catch serial killers?