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"How Google perfected the web" or how google made everything worst (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Snippets: For reputable news outlets, the challenge of producing work that Google likes and that meets high-quality standards is magnified; you can’t fill articles with SEO-bait keywords without readers noticing.

The sleazier SEO strategists have already caught on, waiting and hoping for their chance to exploit whatever Google prioritizes. There are product recommendation articles with titles like “Best Espresso Machine Reddit 2023” and entire websites filled with reviews “according to Reddit” that appear to be fake accounts talking to each other. Some subreddits are overrun with affiliate link spam.

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[–] TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Just gonna leave this here, since the verge is so 'fancy': The perfect site

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Boo, what a blatant copy of the https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ /s

[–] TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Dang, thats the one I meant! Had to search it and only found this one.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I blame Google.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

So this change just shows how bad it’s gotten right?

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but I like @tale's link better since it's not so potty-mouthed.

[–] Patch 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's also worse because it completely undermines the point by using a horrendous fixed width typeface and dark green on black colours for the text.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Fair point. I kind of worked around that, focusing on the content.

[–] ScribbleAddict@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago

This was hilarious to read right after the verge. I couldn't stop smiling while reading it. It actually feels like a breath of fresh air considering all of the SEO sites I find myself reading lately lol.