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> There's a number of things that have happened in the organic search area of Google that seem to suggest a declining interest in quality organic results. I th
by rryan 10y ago
> There's a number of things that have happened in the organic search area of Google that seem to suggest a declining interest in quality organic results.
I think you may be falling for the SV cult of personality fallacy. There are still literally thousands of individuals you've never heard of working on organic search quality at Google who care very much about quality organic results. :)
- nolok 10y agoNo no no, the two person whose name he knew left after years in the same job, it must mean Google doesn't care anymore about their main product that makes roughly 90% of their revenue ! So yeah I totally agree, be it Google, Apple, Microsoft, ... A large amount of people around here are so used to small team startup represented by their founder that they always feel the need in similar stories to make a cult of personality for / against someone as if he was the product he worked for.
- tyingq 10y agoI mentioned more than just two personalities. Edit: And, I did mention more focus on ads and widgets versus the actual organic results. If those weren't more important, why are they at the top, crowding organics down? The revenue isn't really coming from the organics themselves.
- dkfmn 10y agoWell, to be fair the stuff that generates 90% of their revenue IS what's pushing organic results further down the page.
- revelation 10y agoYou would think so, but then Apple has thousands of engineers yet can't be bothered to regularly update its products, lazily copies parts and construction and even discontinued a bunch of stuff. (And while Google keeps adding heuristics I wish some of those many developers and researchers would simply occasionally try the product and ban, purge the very obvious content farm and spam sites)