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> It means that Google's enshittified search-results are a choice. Those ad-strewn, sub-Altavista, spam-drowned search pages are a feature, not a bug. > they [

> It means that Google's enshittified search-results are a choice. Those ad-strewn, sub-Altavista, spam-drowned search pages are a feature, not a bug. > they [...] figured out their most profitable course of action is to enshittify their flagship product I think Doctorov is getting this entirely backwards; Google would love to provide good search results, but there's just one Google, and there's millions of people out there trying to make SEO spam. Most bloggers are just writing whatever posts they feel like writing, while content farms explicitly optimize for articles that rank highly in search. The outcome is inevitable. To be clear, I think Google could (and probably has historically) spend more on improving search, I wouldn't be surprised if they decided that this isn't profitable for them, but I don't think there's anybody at Google who explicitly wants search to be bad. Kagi isn't good just because it is good, it is good because it's small enough that nobody really optimizes for ranking high on Kagi.

silveraxe93 3y ago
> Kagi isn't good just because it is good, it is good because it's small enough that nobody really optimizes for ranking high on Kagi. While I think that's like 50% of the story, it's not the only factor. For me what's amazing is being able to up/downrank results. By shifting responsibility down into users to curate their own algorithm Kagi is more robust to bad actors generating SEO spam.
rnd0 3y ago
> Google would love to provide good search results, but there's just one Google, and there's millions of people out there trying to make SEO spam. Most bloggers are just writing whatever posts they feel like writing, while content farms explicitly optimize for articles that rank highly in search. The outcome is inevitable. I think it has less to do with that, and more to do with the fact that their primary business is advertising. That is and will always be their first priority.

silveraxe93 3y ago

> Kagi isn't good just because it is good, it is good because it's small enough that nobody really optimizes for ranking high on Kagi. While I think that's like 50% of the story, it's not the only factor. For me what's amazing is being able to up/downrank results. By shifting responsibility down into users to curate their own algorithm Kagi is more robust to bad actors generating SEO spam.

rnd0 3y ago

> Google would love to provide good search results, but there's just one Google, and there's millions of people out there trying to make SEO spam. Most bloggers are just writing whatever posts they feel like writing, while content farms explicitly optimize for articles that rank highly in search. The outcome is inevitable. I think it has less to do with that, and more to do with the fact that their primary business is advertising. That is and will always be their first priority.