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I don't understand this narrative that Google is making the search results get worse or "letting" companies game it. Search result ranking is adversarial! If th
by seoaeu 5y ago
I don't understand this narrative that Google is making the search results get worse or "letting" companies game it. Search result ranking is adversarial! If the results are worse than they once were, that just means that Google is less far ahead in the arms race than they used to be
- mleonhard 5y agoAn alternative explanation is that Google stopped caring about UX.
- AwaAwa 5y agoA doodle a day, is the UX way.
- hedora 5y agoI think this summarizes the argument that Google search is imploding: - Many of the problems are self-inflicted (dropping search terms, pages of other stuff before first link). - They’re getting worse faster than their competition. - Google apparently helped at least one external SEO team game image search into relevance-oblivion. (Also, “narrative” usually implies “fiction” or “concerted disinformation campaign”, and is either used as a weasel word by liars referring to their own writing/reporting, or it’s used as a pejorative. I don’t think you meant to imply either.)