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Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find
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This is what happens when everyone does 'SEO,'
It really seems like nowadays that internet search is just people trying to game the system for clicks. But it has made everything superficial and fake. Not to mention, utterly useless.
I don't know what the solution is really. It's easy to say 'dont do SEO' but people will just find some way to game that system too. It was great when Reddit wasn't complete shit, because the subreddits dedicated to a particular topic had great insights into whatever topic you wanted to know about. But now that it's a cesspool, and Lemmy is tiny in comparison, id say get used to the Internet being like this for a while.
IMO It's not just optimization or monetization. It's the abandonment of the open internet (blogs, forums, etc) in favor of walled garden apps that are closed off and operate like a black box. SEO itself is just metadata and helps find things during search nothing malicious about it, but the problem is due to web abandonment, the things there are to find are so low effort you stick to big tent apps like reddit instead of sifting through blog spam
I agree. So much of the web now functionally happens on the socials which are not indexed/accessible to crawlers.