This is not in any way true.
SEO is an almost impossible to solve problem because sites know any search engine exists.
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grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoSEO is only feasible in the first place because we have one dominant search engine instead of a bunch of equally-prominent ones with different algorithms that would need to be optimized for differently (and maybe even mutually-exclusively).
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
Copy paste.
There are a ton of them, the problem is none of them are as good as google.
I hear there are good pay ones, though I have never tried one.
I can usually find what I need on google pretty damn quick, although I have seen the end page more than once
Undaunted@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I found search results surprisingly bad when I had to use is on another computer. I use Kagi (and yes it costs money but I rather pay that than pay with my data) which gives me way more accurate results. Google might have been the best search engine until a few years ago but from my experience it is not anymore.
azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Kagi is just Google’s index with fancy features and filtering on top. They include a few other sources but for regular search it’s almost always going to be Google’s index providing the base results.
Undaunted@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
That’s not true. They use their own index