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I would suppose that this change is less google changing and more the web changing as people pump out content marketing and SEO. Also might be "olden days were
by asperous 8y ago
I would suppose that this change is less google changing and more the web changing as people pump out content marketing and SEO. Also might be "olden days were greener", I sure remember a lot of keyword stuffing back in the day.
- telchar 8y agoYou're probably right about that. Although I can point to one very specific way the olden days were better: a Google search used to turn up lots of forum posts, which are often the most useful results on a given topic. These days I almost never see forum posts of any kind turned up a search results (except stack overflow, thankfully). I'm not sure what caused the change but I find useful information is much more likely to be buried by low-information wikihow-type results and corporate landing pages.
- a008t 8y agoPossibly because most forums seem to have died? Or maybe they died because they got excluded from search results?
- jrumbut 8y agoThere was, if anything, more search engine spam then. It's just that you got the tools to remove it yourself and then after 12-15 tries you got beautiful search results. Now they've gotten rid of that refinement process in favor of initial results that aren't spam but also aren't that exciting.