Google regularly launches updates to its algorithm to continuously improve search results quality. Think of these updates as a refresh of the system where rankings change: some websites see an improvement while others see a decline.

We know that at the end of the day, Google will reward us if our readers find our articles useful.

Or that’s what we thought.

You might have noticed that no matter what you google, there’s always a selection of the same publishers showing up at the top of the results.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Google regularly launches updates to its algorithm to continuously improve search results quality.

    Does anyone still believe this? Their quality has been dog shit for a decade, and gets worse with every update. They change the algorithm to push what is profitable.

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    10 months ago

    Here is a thing that is super super evil and we’re going to explain why it’s affecting us personally and then stop there

    It’s so exhausting.

  • aquafunkalisticbootywhap@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 months ago

    Everybody loses but the investment firm.

    by. design.

    it’s so hard to watch people in late-stage capitalism still have faith enough in the integrity of the whole thing to give a go at it, and inevitably get smacked down by the few with all the dollar, as if it werent all rigged against them from the beginning. I hope theyve learned and pivoted their efforts into helping press the big RESET button rather than kicking the can down the road, no matter how pure the intentions

    there’s a class war on, and we’re losing. honestly, truly, maybe we don’t need an ethical review website right now, unless youre reviewing torches and pitchforks? I say this out of frustration that so many of the people behind that site will just pointlessly try to play by the rules again. the war needs more good fighters, not people who continue to swallow the lie that the way forward is playing by the current, just so laughably rigged game

    i dont care that this whole comment is a cliche

    cliches are cliches for a reason

    fuck Google, the employees and shareholders

    eat the fucking rich

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    10 months ago

    This is so depressing… I’d been seeing it in effect but I didn’t know all the context. We need more and better alternative search engines, like Stract.

    EDIT: Actually, are any of the searXNG instances including Stract yet?