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0 pointsfastball5y ago0 comments

That was when people built websites to deliver content. Now people build websites to get highly ranked in Google. No matter how good google's algos are, they can't win when the underlying content is just SEO'd garbage.

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Nextgrid5y ago

SEO'd garbage often contains ads, including Google ads. There's no incentive for Google to fix this problem.

Google's job is not to give you great search results, it's to keep you clicking on ads. Ideally it would be the ads on the search results page directly, but if that doesn't work then a blogspam website with Google ads is the next best thing.

If Google was a paid service this problem would be solved the next day. Oh, and Pinterest would completely disappear from Google too. :)

kevin_thibedeau5y ago

> If Google was a paid service this problem would be solved the next day.

Nope. Cable television was introduced with the promise of no ads. That didn't last long.

Nextgrid5y ago

Cable television could get away with it because for a long time there was no alternative, so they could renege on the promise of no ads and still keep making money (though now people have alternatives in the form of streaming services and cable television is circling the drain).

Search engines are a relatively competitive market. A paid Google with no extra perks will not fly when the majority of people will just flee to Bing. For a paid Google to be successful it has to provide additional value such as filtering out ads, blogspam, Pinterest and other wastes of time.

TomJansen5y ago

Spotify & YouTube Premium run without ads just fine, so why wouldn't it work for search engines? Text is way more compressible then music and video. So at least on serving data it is way more cheaper than the aforementioned services

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TomJansen5y ago

I would gladly pay 7.50 euros a month for a search engine which would serve me good results without the SEO blogspam. Sadly, I think that no new pages are written without SEO bullcrap. The next best thing I think is to use the search functionality of sites themselves (like Stackoverflow, Reddit, HackerNews etc.)

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Nextgrid5y ago

SEO'd garbage often contains ads, including Google ads. There's no incentive for Google to fix this problem.

If Google was a paid service this problem would be solved the next day. Oh, and Pinterest would completely disappear from Google too. :)

kevin_thibedeau5y ago

> If Google was a paid service this problem would be solved the next day.

Nope. Cable television was introduced with the promise of no ads. That didn't last long.

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