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The search results markedly worsened in the last 5 years. Why could they keep up with SEO spam until 5 years ago, and now they can't? Their revenue has been gro
by cft 5y ago
The search results markedly worsened in the last 5 years. Why could they keep up with SEO spam until 5 years ago, and now they can't? Their revenue has been growing dramatically, so they could proportionally increase the allocation. It's probably because the focus of their HR/changing workforce is now elsewhere: maybe fighting "disinformation": both COVID and political. Those efforts were non-existent 5 years ago.
- specialp 5y agoI think it is also no longer in their interest. If you look at their mobile results now, there are sometimes no search results for webpages, just ads, and their automatically extracted data. So, it is in their interest now to have the search for non-advertisers to be bad. Eventually people will consider those results junk and just use the google extracted data/people who paid to go up.