There’s something else wrong besides just excessive SEO. The other day I was trying to find a battery controller for a diy battery pack. I searched “rechargeable battery controller.” Every result on the first page was rechargeable battery packs for Xbox controllers. I understand how there could be a strong correlation, but it was every result being for Xbox controllers. So my conclusion is that Google search is doing more than correlating occurrence of search terms now. I think they’re running some sort of ai to guess what you intend to search based on what you typed then showing results based on that. So their system decided I was looking for a battery for an Xbox controller and showed only results for that search rather than a search of what I actually typed.
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Badeendje@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I hope they figure this out, cause the search results are depressing.
Fermion@mander.xyz 11 months ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Honestly, i hope they don’t.
We don’t need google (or any tech giant) where the internet of humans is going.
thehatfox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Unfortunately it’s never-ending cat and mouse battle. The whole point of SEO is to game the search engines systems, so the spammers will now be adjusting their tactics.
I don’t think it’s just SEO that’s the problem with Google search either. They seem to put too much weight on e-commerce over information.
tyler@programming.dev 11 months ago
Kagi and sealngx figured it out just fine. Turns out if your goal isn’t to show advertisements then it’s not that hard of a problem.
hannes3120@feddit.de 11 months ago
Those are just insignificant compared to Google so noone is even trying to game them.
That’s actually one of the reasons why I use kagi but saying that they figured it out is just wrong
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 11 months ago
do you mean SearXNG?
tyler@programming.dev 11 months ago
Yeah. It’s well past my bedtime. I shouldn’t be online
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 11 months ago
Or SEOs are focus on gaming google.