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I've used Google today for a quick product comparison search and it's awful. The first three results were sponsored ads and the next pages are just low-quality

by siva7 4y ago

I've used Google today for a quick product comparison search and it's awful. The first three results were sponsored ads and the next pages are just low-quality seo rigged content that didn't answer my question.

basch 4y ago
Having Bing chat attached to bing doesn’t exactly solve this. It still constantly pulls from low quality sources. I asked a question about Satan and it cited Answers in Genesis. Product reviews regularly return seo garbage. Product review categories in particular would benefit from whitelisting, by hand, things like americas text kitchen, consumer reports, rtings.
- AlotOfReading 4y ago
  I get the other bits, but what's the issue with citing Genesis? It doesn't use the names for Satan, but the serpent is commonly understood as the same entity. Are you looking for e.g. Job instead?
  - basch 4y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answers_in_Genesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answers_in_Genesis https://answersingenesis.org/ https://answersingenesis.org/
    - AlotOfReading 4y ago
      Yeah, I see why that would be problematic. I misunderstood the original statement as citing the book of genesis itself, which seems a lot more reasonable.
bitshiftfaced 4y ago
It seems particularly bad lately. The pattern I've noticed is: * A totally pointless introduction paragraph, devoid of info. * Big ad * A sort of teaser sentence in large font so that it appears to be the length of a paragraph. High noise to information ratio. * Larger ad that loads as you scroll, so you're more likely to accidentally hit it * Another sentence with high noise to info ratio. * Repeat. I think one of the SEO perks of this pattern is how it takes forever to find the information that you know must be somewhere on the website, so users seem more "engaged" because they are scrolling and spending more time visiting the site.
- topicseed 4y ago
  Also generates more ad impressions as you scroll and see these ads.
  - pmoriarty 4y ago
    Looks like Google has turned into AltaVista.
    - deleted 4y ago
      [deleted]
    - MichaelMoser123 4y ago
      You made my day with that comment!
      - MichaelMoser123 4y ago
        not yet, you need to 'join in the waitlist' and be granted access to the 'new bing' - otherwise no access to the chat mode.
slowmotiony 4y ago
I wanted to check this point and asked Bing to suggest some good business laptops below $800. It suggested me a $2k dell xps, a $1.5k LG gram and some piece of shit chromebook. I guess we'll never have objective product comparisons free of seo bullshit.

by siva7 4y ago

basch 4y ago

Having Bing chat attached to bing doesn’t exactly solve this. It still constantly pulls from low quality sources. I asked a question about Satan and it cited Answers in Genesis. Product reviews regularly return seo garbage. Product review categories in particular would benefit from whitelisting, by hand, things like americas text kitchen, consumer reports, rtings.

AlotOfReading 4y ago
I get the other bits, but what's the issue with citing Genesis? It doesn't use the names for Satan, but the serpent is commonly understood as the same entity. Are you looking for e.g. Job instead?
- basch 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answers_in_Genesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answers_in_Genesis https://answersingenesis.org/ https://answersingenesis.org/
  - AlotOfReading 4y ago
    Yeah, I see why that would be problematic. I misunderstood the original statement as citing the book of genesis itself, which seems a lot more reasonable.

bitshiftfaced 4y ago

It seems particularly bad lately. The pattern I've noticed is: * A totally pointless introduction paragraph, devoid of info. * Big ad * A sort of teaser sentence in large font so that it appears to be the length of a paragraph. High noise to information ratio. * Larger ad that loads as you scroll, so you're more likely to accidentally hit it * Another sentence with high noise to info ratio. * Repeat. I think one of the SEO perks of this pattern is how it takes forever to find the information that you know must be somewhere on the website, so users seem more "engaged" because they are scrolling and spending more time visiting the site.

topicseed 4y ago
Also generates more ad impressions as you scroll and see these ads.
- pmoriarty 4y ago
  Looks like Google has turned into AltaVista.
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
  - MichaelMoser123 4y ago
    You made my day with that comment!
    - MichaelMoser123 4y ago
      not yet, you need to 'join in the waitlist' and be granted access to the 'new bing' - otherwise no access to the chat mode.

slowmotiony 4y ago

I wanted to check this point and asked Bing to suggest some good business laptops below $800. It suggested me a $2k dell xps, a $1.5k LG gram and some piece of shit chromebook. I guess we'll never have objective product comparisons free of seo bullshit.