Submitted 7 months ago by TORFdot0@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/
I know that the source is more focused on retro gaming as a topic but the topic of this post is Google and its pagerank algorithm which is more appropriate for this community.
We’ve all noticed the enshittification of Google Search over the last few months, but it’s still hard to hear how it is affecting content creators and putting them out of business so we can see 20 AI generated spam pages about whatever our query is.
While Google certainly has a lot of responsibility for how shit their search results have become and the effects they have on website operators, the SEO industry can all go eat a giant bag of dicks for being the driving force behind making search results worthless trash.
Google also is responsible for the SEO industry. They made ads hugely profitable, then started directing traffic to sites that serve more of their ads, regardless of quality.
Google also is responsible for the SEO industry
What a sad faith for a website named after the glorious Dodo.
Faith
Fate?
Indeed, thanks!
In my experience this guy is right.
Just compare DuckDuckGo results to Google results.
I did a search for “retro handheld news” and they were like #7 and I did a search for “Anbernic rg353” and they were #8. I have blockers on and above Retro Dodo was Anbernic’s official site (fair), an Aliexpress site that is not Anbernic’s (crap), Amazon third part sellers (also crap), and one YouTube reviewer with 41k subs.
So his assessment is fair but I always tried to avoid Retro Dodo before because on its early days they always had some kind of info wrong or they don’t go more in depth with their reviews. Their site ranking was always higher then better sites with better content.
It’s likely that our website structure isn’t perfect or that our content may likely be “over-optimised” for Google, but at least tell me. I am no SEO expert;l I have a million plates to spin as a content website operator, and I cannot get everything right. If Google were to inform me what I was doing incorrectly then I could change that, but they don’t. They just keep hiding our work, month after month after month.
Really curious about this.
On DuckDuckGo they’re the second result for “retro handheld news”.
Same on Kagi, right after retrohandhelds.gg.
I still have a lot of de-googling to do. However this point, I only use google as a search engine maybe once/month, and it’s frankly usually for the google business info…thing. For everything else, I use Kagi and quite frankly have not looked back. Probably one of the few services that I happily pay for.
I bought an Ayn Odin 2 recently and noticed how hard it was to find Russ/Retro Game Corp’s site and videos even when searching directly for retro game corps. It was like the results some days were buried and other times I could find them in the top few.
Tbh, retro dodo’s site and content is shit. Retro Game Corps is the shit.
This is so sad.
foggy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
…months?
Homie, it took a downturn in 2012, then a sharp downturn in 2018.
Months??
Over a decade.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
Have you seen it recently? In the last month or two, it feels like they just flipped an enshittification switch and suddenly made the engine completely unusable.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Now even using quotes and specific sites isn’t guaranteed to get what you are looking for…
iopq@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It was so good in 2004. It would find the good shit until people gamed the backlink strategy to the point Google stopped really using it
whygohomie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yup. By and large, the SEO industry is a cancer.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In the last few months there has been the highly visible changes that include adding the generative AI search experience but you are right. Google search has been getting more and more useless as time has gone on