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No. There still are forums on lots of topics. But search how to fix X and instead of prioritizing a forum site with answers you get 5 top results trying to sell
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No. There still are forums on lots of topics. But search how to fix X and instead of prioritizing a forum site with answers you get 5 top results trying to sell you the parts to fix X. The answers are always way down the list.
- nemothekid 5y ago>There still are forums on lots of topics. What is Reddit if not the largest forum in the world? You have the same gripe; you are looking for a web where people share things for free (like in forum); and when Google first existed most of the web is like that. And if google were to prioritize forums; then SEO blackhats would do everything in their power to make every website look like a forum; and then you are back to square one. The problem is the profit motive, not Google's algorithms.
- 14 5y agoYes but google crawls the internet it would be pretty trivial for it to scan a site and realize it was full of affiliate links and trying to sell things. They could rank those sites lower then just a site with text and not trying to sell everything.
- betwixthewires 5y agoExplain away how literally verbatim searching with quotes doesn't return verbatim results. Or how searches that match the very title of an article returns mountains of SEO spam before listing the article, if it shows up at all. If there's an algorithm being gamed that causes that, that algorithm was designed explicitly to be gamed.