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The problem generally speaking is that any successor search engine will become a target of the massive spam firehose when sufficiently popular enough, and proba
by bobthepanda 3y ago
The problem generally speaking is that any successor search engine will become a target of the massive spam firehose when sufficiently popular enough, and probably less well equipped to deal with it; Google is well resourced and already struggling. I don’t know that making the web less usable in general is worth it.
- worldofmatthew 3y agoI've seen SEO spam sites that have been running for years without Google doing anything about them. Google could do a lot better.
- bobthepanda 3y agoAre they doing nothing, or is the current state of the spam arms race resulting in running just to stay in the same place? And would anyone be better once they became the primary target?
- BizarroLand 3y agoThey are standing in the middle of it and picking everyone's digital pockets while claiming that they can't possibly help in the fight because it's too hard to pick a side. In an alternate universe they would be a Nazi Switzerland. Google makes money off of SEO spam. They get ad revenue from sellers and then give some pocket change to the scammers from the sellers. All of the money goes through their hands first. They're evil, they've sold whatever soul they might have had to the god of "money at any cost", and the current shitshow of their terrible search results is what you get when a soulless wreck is left to shamble the earth until its heart stops beating.