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It's not a summary of what happened to google (as far as I can tell), but an example of what it's become. I want to know what happened. What were the individua
by solarmist 4y ago
It's not a summary of what happened to google (as far as I can tell), but an example of what it's become.
I want to know what happened. What were the individual things that made sense in isolation, but added up to this steaming turd.
- simonswords82 4y agoToo much focus on ad revenue to drive revenue growth to the detriment of the user search experience is my guess
- AnimalMuppet 4y ago"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" (Goodhart's Law). Google measures how "good" pages are for a given search query. (It doesn't matter how.) Those who own the pages want those pages listed as high as possible, so the measure of how good their page is becomes a target (for them, not for Google). That's enough to make Goodhart's Law apply to Google rankings.