This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Who wrote this? I’m supposed to be upset that a bunch of big websites are lower on Google results? Why should anyone besides their shareholders care?
Edit: Oh, he co-founded the website hosting this article. So he does indeed have a vested personal interest.
I see it as just more proof that Google's shit is becoming increasingly useless. So much so, it doesn't even give results for the big boys who pay to stay number 1. Can't find the niche things, can't find the big obvious things... What the fuck does it find?
It's not as if Google's results have improved in that time span. They are significantly worse now.
That big list of sites looks suspiciously like the big list of shit I have to scroll past in order to find actually relevant results.
I welcome this change.
Google search has enshittified far faster than I ever thought possible. It used to work like magic. Too bad capitalism dictates that usefulness has a ceiling.
I've switched to Kagi recently and honestly it's better than Google ever was. You can assign weights to sites to see more or less of them in your results, it automatically cuts the listicle crap out, it has various built in filters for specific things like forums or scientific studies.
Downside: it's $10/mo. But I'm at the "I'd rather pay with money than data" stage of my life. Especially if it actually makes the experience fucking usable again.
I'm at that point as well I think. Thank you for the suggestion!
Another happy Kagi user here, it’s great.
There was something bad with Kagi.
I'm gonna keep it real with you, I'll take "weirdo CEO and optional AI tools" over "corporate entity so powerful that society has literally warped around it, whose primary business model is psychological manipulation" any day of the week. The other search engines are so poor at what they do that they're not viable options.
You're linking to a halfhearted attempt at an exposé written by someone who acts unreasonable towards any attempts at clarification.
That's not the point though. The point is that the ceo of the company hounds the person with their wall of text over something that they had virtually no exposure on at all. If not for that, it'd have remained completely obscure.
virtually no exposure at all
That is not correct: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314
Wasn't the explosion of that after the fact?
TL;DR; “AI bad, they made some t-shirts, and the owner says some stupid crap sometimes.” 🙄
As long as the results remain the best and they don’t screw me over, I’m happy to keep paying for them.
But lets be honest, even Duck Duck Go is better than Google these days. It’s fine if folks don’t want to pay for search, but you’ll have a better experience avoiding Google, either way.
But lets be honest, even Duck Duck Go is better than Google these days.
I hate to say it, because I love their privacy policy, but it we're being honest, it's not. DDG mostly uses Bing, and I struggle to find what I'm after on that engine. I have better results with Brave search, who now run their own index (but their tech bro CEO leaves me nervous at every turn)
The world is a much worse place with bad search. We need a search system that is treated like a utility and paid based on success not ad views.
Does anyone know the best lemmy community to ask about SEO and web/finance tech in relation to a small business? I have a small business that is doing very well, but SEO and word of mouth is a direct contributor to its success, and I think I'm getting screwed over in cost by the company I've been paying to run my site building, hosting and, SEO.
you can also DM me. Lead gen manager for a $5MM software company, 11 years experience digital marketing.
You can dm me if you want. I ran an agency that did SEO for a several years before I sold it in 2021. I’m can’t provide you with much in the ways of strategy anymore but I can give you an idea if your current provider is doing reputable work or not
Pornhub, xtube, I know these names better than Google knows my own grandmother's. Youporn, xxn, redtube, panty jobs, homegrown Simpsons stuff....
Edit: This isn't my fault it's the source articles for using that image.
That’s one of the most trash articles I’ve ever read.
Good. Websites are spammy garbage now. I can't fucking believe how shitty the experience is when I'm not using a browser with uBlock origin.
If this is a way to punish that, punish away.
What the heck is Dexerto?
I don't see pinterest on this list.
