It’s amazing how bad it is now with SEO-optimisation. Most people (myself included) put “reddit” into the search query to clean things up in the hopes that we’ll get something other than an ad-serve/affiliate-sales-linked website, but this really opens you up to being exposed to astro-turfing.
Google is (still) losing the spam wars to zombie news-brands
Submitted 6 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/03/keyword-swarming/
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overload@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 6 months ago
If you’re actually interested in results from Reddit, you should put in
site:reddit.com. Otherwise, you’re just encouraging/rewarding sites that use that term for their SEO spam.overload@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Sure, I do ignore those sites but this is a good way of doing it.
almost1337@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Try using before:2023 if you don’t need the absolute most recent info
overload@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Hadn’t thought of that. Unfortunately generally I’m looking at current products/news more often than not. Makes me worried about the whole dead internet theory if I’m being honest.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Google juices reddit posts now so no need to throw that shit in anymore. There were recent news articles about it coming from tne antitrust case against the company. Now many folks use “-reddit” for how bad reddit is these days clogging up search.
sasquash@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
SEO in combination with AI is cancer!
nom_nom_nom_9999@ani.social 6 months ago
They do this on purpose. Google now only keep enough engineer to keep it search afloat. Everything else focus on ads and dark pattern.
Hypx@fedia.io 6 months ago
Google will have to resort to human curation of search results at some point.
stembolts@programming.dev 6 months ago
Given that Google search only returns like 9 websites now, shouldn’t be too hard.
Google sucks now, use duckduckgo or something else.
brewery@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Been using Duckduckgo for a few years now and found it very good, although it’s also on the downward SEO ruined path. Have tried Google occasionally and wow is it juat completely full of crap.
SharkAttak@kbin.social 6 months ago
We'll go full circle and return to site directories.
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Web Rings ftw
dan1101@lemm.ee 6 months ago
They won’t pay for that, they would probably rather spend money on developing AI curation.
SharkAttak@kbin.social 6 months ago
Yes but if they want an AI to index it, first it would have to figure out what an index is ;-)