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Err “We depend on advertising to fund our services … please disable your adblocker” The Smithsonian ?! I do wonder if the ad-driven digital world is simply go
by lifeisstillgood 2y ago
Err “We depend on advertising to fund our services … please disable your adblocker”
The Smithsonian ?!
I do wonder if the ad-driven digital world is simply going to consume itself.
The Guardian newspaper apparently did an internal study pre-covid and found that 1/3 of its content was essentially unread, and that the effort to SEO / promote that 1/3 not only was wasted effort but actually harmed the results of the other 2/3rds.
Google (or rather PageRank) does try to promote what is well read and referenced, but the sludge does drag down everything.
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- immibis 2y agoGoogle tries to promote what generates the most money for Google.
- reddalo 2y agoIn other words, companies that offer search engine results shouldn't also offer advertisement services.
- taurath 2y agoI mean, if you want government to run like a business, and all the businesses are shit, then you want government to run like shit
- awanderingmind 2y agoI agree it's not great, but it seems to be more of a request? I can view the page by closing the popup, without the need to disable my adblocker.
- markovs_gun 2y agoSearch engines have gotten bad, and I feel like LLMs are just making them worse and worse. I am sick of wading through pages of shitty AI generated articles and SEO'd junk articles that may as well have been written by AI to find any actually good information. It's gotten especially bad for really basic science and engineering stuff too. You used to be able to get really quick, reputable information about things like water density tables or unit conversions with a quick Google search, but now the top results are all really shitty websites with dubious info or no actual information, just words.