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>Show of hands - people who feel google search has improved in the last 5/10 years vs people who feel it's gotten demonstrably worse? I mean, personally I thin
by hdhejenennd 4y ago
>Show of hands - people who feel google search has improved in the last 5/10 years vs people who feel it's gotten demonstrably worse?
I mean, personally I think this is very likely true. My feeling is that it's the web itself which has gotten demonstrably worse. Diagnosing the reasons for that is a more interesting problem.
- steveBK123 4y ago"Search hasn't gotten worse, the web has" is like the Simpsons meme "Am I so out of touch? No. It's the children who are wrong." The only score that matters is the one in real life, in the game you choose to play. If it gets harder, you need to get better.
- acdha 4y ago> My feeling is that it's the web itself which has gotten demonstrably worse. Diagnosing the reasons for that is a more interesting problem. I think it’s a little tricky separating the two since Google has so much influence over the web. A lot of the parts of the web which have gotten worse were due to decisions they made to do things like cut ad revenue for normal organic content, declining to punish or even rewarding blackhat SEO, pushing AMP, shuttering Reader, etc. That sold a lot of ads at the time and people said it was needed to counter Facebook but it’s left them more vulnerable now.