• Cypher@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Search engines are so significantly worse than they were a decade ago. The golden age of accurate searches is over, now it’s all SEO piss and AI slop.

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
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      1 day ago

      To give credit to the people trying to make good search, the internet is so much worse than it was a decade or two ago.

      Over that time the ad driven internet has encouraged low quality, high volume websites full of articles designed around common search terms.

      It started before AI, but now you can drum up an article in seconds it has got much worse.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      SEO garbage has been around for much more than a decade. In fact, before Google got really good at search ranking, sites easily gamed the search engines.