Search engine results are getting worse, research confirms
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'Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam,' says study
      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        311·
        10 months ago

        That’s not what we’re talking about. Ad blockers don’t do anything to fix Google’s search algorithm

        • Kbobabob@lemmy.worldEnglish
          53·
          10 months ago

          I understand the post OP but I’m replying to a comment. Specifically this part…

          It just became an ad-ridden hellhole.

          • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
            8·
            10 months ago

            I take it what OP meant is that a lot of the top results are ads - even if they aren’t shown as such. Like how half the crap uploaded by large youtubers these days is pretty much an ad for a specific product, although there’s no way to tell until you click onto it (unless you use sponsorblock)

          • MaggiWuerze@feddit.deEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            The ads you see injected in your search result as “sponsored” are not the only way Googles Ad interests affect your search results. They are actively manipulating your search queries to make them point more towards their paying customers wanted result without you noticing.

    • SteveEnglish
      136·
      10 months ago

      That’s why I like Kagi. I do almost anything to avoid ads

        • SteveEnglish
          93·
          10 months ago

          Not really no.
          Kagi has vastly more features. Most are extremely useful. Including privacy.
          And the whole “funding a bigot” complaint strikes me as kind of silly. The “partnership” is just them using the Brave search API, no different than they do Google, Bing, and a few others. I even have Brave as one of my sanity check browsers when something doesn’t work on Firefox.

            • SteveEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              It’s silly to try to avoid doing anything that may, in some way support a bigot. They are literally everywhere. Even Gandhi was racist.

              It’s just the payment info, not the searches. And since their users are their only revenue source, because they aren’t selling ads, they have no reason to save searches.

                • SteveEnglish
                  31·
                  10 months ago

                  You might think that under capitalism or something, animal cruelty might be a huge problem too, but I doubt you would buy bullets with the express intent of shooting dogs. (I hope.)

                  This seems like a non-sequitur. I don’t understand your point here.

                • wikibot@lemmy.worldBEnglish
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  Here’s the section for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

                  = In 2017, Beale launched Infogalactic, an English-language wiki encyclopedia. The site was a fork of the contents of English Wikipedia which could be gradually edited to remove the influence of what Beale described as “the left-wing thought police who administer [Wikipedia]”. It has been described by Wired and The Washington Post as a version of Wikipedia targeted to alt-right readers.

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