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Search peaked 10 years ago. There's lots of regression in Google Search. For example, you used to be able to search images by specific dimensions. You can do th
by artificial 4y ago
Search peaked 10 years ago. There's lots of regression in Google Search. For example, you used to be able to search images by specific dimensions. You can do this today on Yandex. The quality of results and promotion of sponsored results, the scraping and displaying of site contents so users visit less (how is this legal btw?) Not respecting verbatim searches.
- yamtaddle 4y agoAbout '08. Spam took over right after that. Used to go in waves of better/worse as they played cat-n-mouse with spammers, but they seemed to kinda give up right around then.
- matai_kolila 4y agoThat's not really what this article is about though, it's about how PageRank doesn't work anymore because advertising is at odds with returning valuable results, which is complete nonsense for a gigantic subset of the value that Google offers. Also it's written by a CEO of a competing search company. It's literally the very SEO he's railing against...