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My personal pet peeve is vendors using content marketing to write shallow pseudo-technical content designed to rank for converting keywords. It's the kind of s
by gbrindisi 6y ago
My personal pet peeve is vendors using content marketing to write shallow pseudo-technical content designed to rank for converting keywords.
It's the kind of shit that forces me to search stackoverflow, reddit, hn or any other somewhat curated source I can find.
- lifeisstillgood 6y ago> any other somewhat curated source To me this is the nub of the problem - Google is doing fine for an automated solution. But you cannot beat a community of enthusiasts who know their area and come together to build a public resource. Its almost like humans have been doing this for generations previously to the internet. Somethings just are going to not scale
- gbrindisi 6y agoI feel I agree with you but a few years ago it wasn't like this: I remember being able to use google for discovery and I can't anymore. Google game of whack-a-mole somehow turned against them and this article is spot on on that.
- lifeisstillgood 6y agothis is a good point - probably related to majority audience need - one would not expect prime time TV to deliver discovery in the same way the library of congress would - perhaps we don't need competitors to google to make google better but competitors to make google many different things - they should not have one algorithm as it were.