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Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find (tech.slashdot.org)

submitted 10 months ago by jezebelley@leminal.space to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ratcliff@lemmy.wtf 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IMO It's not just optimization or monetization. It's the abandonment of the open internet (blogs, forums, etc) in favor of walled garden apps that are closed off and operate like a black box. SEO itself is just metadata and helps find things during search nothing malicious about it, but the problem is due to web abandonment, the things there are to find are so low effort you stick to big tent apps like reddit instead of sifting through blog spam

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

I agree. So much of the web now functionally happens on the socials which are not indexed/accessible to crawlers.