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It's not even the change of algorithms. The results are filled with ads and promoted content, SEO spam, related search terms, images, news, and other nonsense.
by imiric 4y ago
It's not even the change of algorithms. The results are filled with ads and promoted content, SEO spam, related search terms, images, news, and other nonsense. Long gone are the days when the SERP was a plain text list of the most relevant and useful results. Nowadays the page is designed to keep you as long as possible on google.com, or click through an ad.
Google Search today is only usable through frontends like SearX, and even then the results are no better than any competitor's.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoWhen a site I click on immediately puts up a banner/etc. I back out instantly and try the next result. Privacy concerns aside, ha ha, I wish a search site could rank results based on how long the user spends on the site. Most of the crap-sites that seem to get on the front page would disappear instantly from the rankings.
- sseagull 4y agoUsing that metric has its own downsides though, depending on the content. If I am searching for some particular piece of information, the best site is the one that has that up front, which means I get in and leave pretty fast. Assuming that a user spending more time on a site is a good thing leads to large amounts of fluff (like with recipes...). But then again, there are some sites where that metric would be helpful.