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I’m not sure it’s Google’s fault at this point. Maybe it’s just that every site thinks they need to be SEO spam in order to be noticed. And so the internet has
by janalsncm 4y ago
I’m not sure it’s Google’s fault at this point. Maybe it’s just that every site thinks they need to be SEO spam in order to be noticed. And so the internet has become a cesspool of stories about how this is the same recipe passed down in your family since Julius Caesar.
There have been a ton of articles about how Google sucks lately. Well, maybe Google has gotten worse, but maybe the internet has just gotten worse.
If I search for “best gaming laptop” or “taco recipe” the results are pretty much uniformly spammy across Google, Bing, and Neeva, the latter being a paid search engine. All of them are just farms for ads, popups, and paid links sandwiched between AI generated copy.
Is that the search engine’s fault? Is there some oasis of quality results I don’t know about? I would like to know.
- freediver 4y ago> If I search for “best gaming laptop” or “taco recipe” the results are pretty much uniformly spammy across Google, Bing, and Neeva, the latter being a paid search engine. I believe you will find results on Kagi less spammy https://kagi.com/search?q=best+gaming+laptop&r=us&sh=HJrdZzDIZPpoU3NiGVTVNA https://kagi.com/search?q=best+gaming+laptop&r=us&sh=HJrdZzD... (Kagi is also a paid search engine that requires an accunt, the above is publicly shared search) Removing, downranking and classyfing spam/ads is part of things Kagi is focusing on and does decently well (IMO, Kagi founder here).
- techdragon 4y agoI do like to hear a founder of a still developing startup describe their current results as “decently well” … it speaks volumes about what their aim is and how they assess their current position trying to reach those goals. If you thought it wasn’t possible you wouldn’t be trying but you know you aren’t there yet. Thanks for being honest like this. I really should get around to trying Kagi … I think I’m just still in the current habit inertia between DDG and Google
- janalsncm 4y agoGreat to hear from someone fighting the good fight! In your opinion, is the internet just spammy now, or is something else going on?
- freediver 4y agoInternet is extremly spammy and it is a result of ad-based monetization which provides incentive for the spam to be created. Luckilly an efficient mechanism to detect most such spam is to measure number of ads on a site and then downrank such results, which is what we do.
- mackross 4y agothanks for building Kagi <3 – it's expensive but worth it imo