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This article from HN a while back was great: How SEO is Gentrifying the internet. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/12/how-seo-is-gentrifying-the-internet htt
by pcthrowaway 5y ago
This article from HN a while back was great: How SEO is Gentrifying the internet. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/12/how-seo-is-gentrifying-the-internet https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/12/how-seo-is-gentrifyin...
I just tried to find this article on google by searching "Can cats eat blueberries bad search results" (Can Cats eat blueberries is very relevant to the article) and it showed up on the first page of results, albeit at the end.
On Bing I wasn't able to find it
- why_only_15 5y agoI'm very confused by this article. They seem to just assume that breaking up Google would fix the problem, but they don't explain why. To me it seems that a fundamental problem of search on the internet is that it's adversarial, which means Google needs to make these ranking changes to try to make things better in the SEO war. How does breaking Google up fix this? Wouldn't all the new search engines just be worse at fighting SEO spam, leading to even more spam? disclaimer: i work at Google, though not on search.
- Semaphor 5y agoHah, I love that DDG, Bing and Google all return some article about cats being able to eat blueberries, while Kagi delivers your article at the first position :D