Technology

Say the execs of the company who has ruined the internet with seo crap.

Google Perspectives will highlight results from Quora? That's the last thing I want.

It's really frustrating how much blatantly AI-written shit is at the top of every Google search nowadays.

Like, you Google "how to install a door" and you find an article that's like

"Here's how you install a door. Installing a door is really easy when you know how This guide will tell you how to install a door on ten easy steps. The first step in installing your door is to pick a door at the store." It repeats the title of the article everyother damn sentence, and takes FOREVER to get to a useful point. And sometimes they give flat out incorrect advice.

Then, you check the urland it's something like "techbuiz.com" and you've never even heard of this shit before, why the hellisit the top indexed result?

This isn't a problem to do with the reddit blackout at all, it's the enshittification of Google algorithm. They sell those top slots to the highest bidder, it's no longer about who actually has relevant information about the thing you searched for, it's about who had just enough matching keywords AND gave Google money to put up top.

Of course Google blames other sites, like reddit. It makes up all kinds of bullshit to obfuscate what they are doing, and sin e they have a proprietary algorithm nobody can prove that they are doing what I described above. But it's so blatantly obvious that they are that it's nearly insulting that they keep pretending they aren't.

Let's just say that my use of the Wayback Machine is up by 1000% since the blackout started

People will just have to start adding lemmy instead :)

I'm not shocked whatsoever. Especially as of a few months ago, I only get SEO spam around 80% of the time, unless I stick [r word] in front of my query. It's not even just Google or just [r word] going to shit, I can see the internet of just 10 years ago dying in front of my eyes.

I've stopped using it. I now bounce around alternatives but Kagi is the best and my go to now. Here are some alternatives to consider:

• DuckDuckGo
• Brave Search
• Ecosia (A bit spammy, but a passive praxis.)
• https://www.perplexity.ai/
• https://www.phind.com/
• https://kagi.com/
• https://search.marginalia.nu/ (very cool!)
• https://www.wolframalpha.com/
• https://knaben.eu/ (torrents)

Current way to search on google for me is: Add reddit to search string, and set data to before may 1st 2023 Copy link suggested by google and change reddit to reveddit or any of the alternatives there

Results will go out of date but maybe this will tide me over until a good lemmy search is up and running.

@L4s What I'm frustrated with Google search engine, is how it prevent to be smart and kept suggesting keywords that are not relevant to what in searching, the suggested result is totally irrelevant except for one common letter.

My biggest concern with the downfall or even small proportional depopulation of Reddit is 100% going to be /r/sysadmin and /r/msp not being the best place to determine if there is an actual outage in progress for various cloud based IT services. I mean, it's a real, legit concern to worry over if you're in IT.

Google has not been shy about grabbing content from other sites and showing it directly on their search page.

I imagine part of their frustration is that the technical issue of caching and showing relevant reddit/stackexchange/y!answers in their search results is a solved problem, but they're being held back by pesky legal and business constraints, and therefore are forced to remain vulnerable to external events.

We've been not happy with google search for years(Because it is garbage now) and it has very little to do with Reddit.