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You can't. When Google started they relied on keywords and ratings based on # of linkbacks. Then SEO optimization became a thing and people started to add (fake
by OptionOfT 2y ago
You can't. When Google started they relied on keywords and ratings based on # of linkbacks. Then SEO optimization became a thing and people started to add (fake) keywords, and generate (fake) linkbacks.
Then somewhere Google said: you need more content to get higher ranking. Websites started to hire content writers to create extremely light, usually useless posts about problems. I think website owners could get the questions about what people were looking for so they could react to those questions.
Then, that was followed by AI generating those slop pages.
Great example of that is minitool: https://www.partitionwizard.com/news_en_sitemap.xml https://www.partitionwizard.com/news_en_sitemap.xml. There is no reason for an article like https://www.partitionwizard.com/news/cable-not-connected-on-acer-monitor.html https://www.partitionwizard.com/news/cable-not-connected-on-... to appear on their website. And notice every article is ended with
> By the way, MiniTool Partition Wizard is a reliable and professional partition manager. It can convert MBR to GPT without data loss, migrate OS, clone a hard drive, recover data from a hard drive, etc. If you have this need, download it to have a try.
Anecdotally, I was searching for Jerusalem bugs after having caught on on a hike. First result that popped up was from a pest control stating their bite causes fever. No, they don't, but it's a great way to attract traffic (talking about bugs!) and then scaring people into buying their services. It's extremely difficult to consider what they write to be the authority as they aren't neutral in this transaction.
Then all the AI models themselves started to extract 'answers' from those websites and present them to you as authority.
There are people who upload fake videos to YouTube with the most common 'KB1234567 FIX HERE' to shill their products. (Microsoft isn't helping here with their independent advisors always suggesting dism and sfc).
The websites have no incentive anymore of providing you short-form actual answers. It's gone. You can minimize it by using search engines that don't provide you with AI answers, and learn to spot AI content and move on as fast as possible. If the answer is not in the first paragraph you won't find it.