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As you alluded to, unfortunately we aren't even left with gaudy corporatism. It's just an SEO shitshow now. For certain searches, Google is basically useless. I
by avazhi 5y ago
As you alluded to, unfortunately we aren't even left with gaudy corporatism. It's just an SEO shitshow now. For certain searches, Google is basically useless. It's the same fucking content copy pasted across 15 results.
- quickthrower2 5y agoI have to do weird tricks when searching for dll problems to throw off those long lists of fix my pc spam sites. This is for fairly obscure third party dlls. They just round up all the names and create a spam page for each dll. Then probably black hat them to the top.
- lloydatkinson 5y agoWhat kind of tricks do you do?
- criddell 5y agoNot the OP, but search for some of the exported methods can sometimes bring up details.
- quickthrower2 5y agoNormally add something technical and related that I expect to be mentioned in a stackoverflow style forum but not in a spam. You made me think… just search stackoveflow should be step 1. Roll out Google if desperate.
- arlcode 5y agoIt feels like there is a nieche opening up. With SEO copy content being useless to anyone but the provider and Google and the tech giants coming slowly but surely under scrutiny from lawmakers, it seems like there might be an opening to develop a more open web (commercially speaking) especially in those countries and regions that lost the "Big Tech" race. I know HN isn't a fan of regulations but I think FAANG and friends overplayed their hands and the screws are slowly tightening.
- _fat_santa 5y agoI've noticed this is starting to happen with Github issues too. Scummy websites will scrape issue threads on Github, repackage them into "blog posts" with "comments" and rank higher in SEO. It just sucks that the solution to getting ranked on google is never "write good content" but rather "optimize for SEO"