SEO has made a lot of damage to the Internet. 10 years ago links really expressed people preferences, and it was easy to get linked and ranked high when you've

SEO has made a lot of damage to the Internet. 10 years ago links really expressed people preferences, and it was easy to get linked and ranked high when you've published useful stuff. Today, almost all large sites that people use to share links to original content use nofollow links. Because of this, it is common that when you Google for some original content, you will find links to aggregators (Stack Overflow, Reddit, HN, etc.) but the original page will be very far on the result list.