burliman@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Neat. So some of them are nice. Doesn’t make the practice of “optimizing” search a noble practice because some of them think themselves on some high tower. In the end you are trying to push your site above others based on your ability to game the system, rather than relevance of your content. When you do this, I don’t think it’s relevant if you’re a nice person with feelings…
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 10 months ago
I don’t really blame the recipe site that includes how Daniel grew up with their parents searching the river banks of rural New York State for the best wild blueberries, because that’s the only way they show up in a world sorted by shitty algorithms. There’s still a recipe at the bottom of the page, for free.
But I do blame, every single day, the people who make mindless content just to serve ads.
The other day I shit you not I googled how to set a specific Chron schedule, and there was a webpage for it. They had a page for every chron schedule permutation. If you google chron schedule for X hours Y days, Z, you’ll find them. Of course there were ads on the page and it has almost useless, but they exploded their content for views.
But now imagine that Google indexes that, and it becomes costlier for Google to provide a better experience to the user because there’s so much garbage content to index and rank. They also serve ads, so Google actually makes more money showing this trash, thus incentivizing them not to look too closely at the gift horses mouth.
SEO sites can go suck a fuck.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 10 months ago
Try googling hardware-id XX for linux. You can bet there’s a page “XX driver for linux” in the first results.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 10 months ago
I hate that crap. It’s one reason I’m glad sourceforge is dead.
I also don’t understand the sides which just mirror stackoverflow and get ranked above it.
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 10 months ago
I’m surprised stackoverflow haven’t sued some of them… they literally steal the content and stick their own name on it.