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[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

I was Googling just fine until Google ruined it with "SEO" and AI so that completely irrelevant results dominate the first 2 or 3 pages.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Don't get me wrong, fuck google, but how much can we blame google for SEO? That's just people gaming the system, and they'd be doing it no matter how google presented their results.

Maybe there is a whole cooperation aspect that I'm not aware of.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They can only game the system because Google made a system like that possible and has never done anything to combat the gaming of it.

[–] skulkingaround 5 points 2 weeks ago

Come on man I don't like google either, but SEO exploitation has been a cat and mouse game since search engines were invented. They're all varying levels of suck the last few years. It's not an easy problem to solve, and AI has made it far more difficult.

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