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Did you notice that nowadays a lot of websites have a lot of uninteresting drivel giving a "background" to whatever the thing was you were searching for before
by dep_b 3y ago
Did you notice that nowadays a lot of websites have a lot of uninteresting drivel giving a "background" to whatever the thing was you were searching for before you get to read (hopefully) the thing you were searching for?
People discovered that Google measures not only how much time you stay on a webpage but also how much you scroll to define how interesting a website is. So now every crappy "tech tips" website that has an answer that fits in a short paragraph now makes you scroll two pages before you get the thing you actually wanted to read.
- CivBase 3y ago> Did you notice that nowadays a lot of websites have a lot of uninteresting drivel giving a "background" to whatever the thing was you were searching for before you get to read (hopefully) the thing you were searching for? I know you came here looking for a recipe for boiled water, but first here's my thesis on the history and cultural significance of warm liquids.
- dep_b 3y agoAlso you might want look into beer as a replacement for water, or mineral oil
- HumblyTossed 3y agoTea made with mineral oil is awful.
- brookst 3y agoIt’s interesting that water is often boiled in metal pots. There are several kinds of metal pots. Aluminum, stainless steel, and copper are often used for pots to boil water in. Water boils in pots with different metals because only temperature matters for boiling water. If the water is 100c at sea level, it will boil.
- bobajeff 3y agoFinally, that SA writing skill we learned in school can be put to practice!
- burkaman 3y agoHow do they know how much you scroll? Does this mean you get penalized in search results if you don't use Google Analytics?
- bee_rider 3y agoI mean, penalizing sites in their search platform for not using their advertising platform would be blatantly anticompetitive behavior, right? Surely Google is too afraid of our vigorous pro-competition regulatory agencies and would never do such a thing.
- waynesonfire 3y agoand the cherry on top is that they also own the browser. helps to thwart attempts to "scam" google analytics and track those poor a-holes that don't use it.
- nimajneb 3y agoI hate when you click a search result and it doesn't even have the keyword(s) you searched...
- pmoriarty 3y agoI've noticed something similar on youtube. I search for "how to do X", and instead of just showing me how to do it, which might take 30 seconds, they put a ton of fluff and filler in to the video to make it last 5 minutes. Typical video goes something like: 0 - Ads, if you're not using an ad blocker 1 - Intro graphics/animation 2 - "Hi, I'm ___, and in this video I'm going to show you how to do X" 3 - "Before I get in to that, I want to tell you about my channel and all the great things I do." 4 - "Like and subscribe." 5 - "Now let's get in to it..." 6 - "What is X?" 7 - "What's the history of X?" 8 - "Why X is so great." 9 - finally... "How to do X" Fortunately you can skip around, but it's still a bunch of useless fluff and garbage content to get to the maybe 30 seconds of useful information.
- burkaman 3y agoThat is explicitly encouraged by YouTube, if your video is at least 8 minutes (I think) you're allowed to add more ads.
- ranie93 3y agoI've noticed that any video that is 10:XX minutes long almost always is useless They're probably reaching some YT threshold to have more ads show on it
- ethbr0 3y agoI can only tolerate modern YouTube at 1.5 or 2x playback speed. Principally because speaking slower to stretch video length has become endemic.
- chankstein38 3y agoSame. I think it's a mix of that and this "presenter voice" everyone thinks they have to use. My ADHD brain doesn't focus on it well because it's too slow so it's useless to me but all my life I've been told when presenting I should speak slowly and articulately while the reality is that watching anyone speak that way drives me nuts
- Clent 3y agoThis has been going on for about a decade now. This alone has caused me to remove myself from Google's products and services. They have unilaterally made the internet worse.
- AniseAbyss 3y ago[dead]
- sowbug 3y agoAlso, "jump to recipe" could be a simple anchor tag that truly skips the drivel. But for some reason it executes ridiculous JavaScript that animates the scroll just slowly enough to trigger every ad's intersection observer along the way.
- chinchilla2020 3y agoThere should be a search engine penalty for loquacious copy. I want the most succinct result possible when I search the web.