What really ticks me off are all these sites clearly scraping content from Stack Overflow that somehow end up near the top of the search results. How is there not an automated fix for this. Lemme help you out with this Googlers: If site content A == site content B, pagerank = -1.
Can't say I'm ever surprised to see another "WTF Google" post. The search has degraded a lot over the years.<p>With that said, I've tried to switch on more than one occasion and Bing might be the only alternative that worked for me. DuckDuckGo is always way off the mark, no matter how many chances I've given it over the years. Google still wins, even with the ads and spammy stuff.
If you have page with a clean cut answer and a page full of repeated synonyms around the question prompt - the latter wins on Google.<p>If you have a site full of Google ads and a site without google ads,
the former wins Google search traffic.<p>If you have a site with google analytics and one without the former wins.<p>If you have a search engine should you be allowed to prioritize entries that use your advertising network, analytics software, payment methods, etc?
God, those scrapers... You Google something & the results you get are c/p-ed from GitHub issues, with mangled formatting, and no link back to the original content.<p>We need domain-banners back in Google!
Anyone have any methods for avoiding this SEO nonsense?<p>I generally prefix search query with `site:reddit.com` or `site:news.ycombinator.com`<p>Which returns much better discussions about a question/topic, in those discussions can be genuinely great ideas and links
I looked the results for “remote work best practices” and they all seems a valid articles. Not really SEO spam.<p>Which article is considered as not spam? HRB one? Really?
The SEO spam is more prevalent in the programming space as recently published articles tend to shadow the older ones as long as they have the right set of keywords.<p>Just Google “react node.js” and you’d see a low-quality post farming the top spot (with paid-product CTA links).
you.com CEO here.
We let people give feedback on which major content blocks they want to see and soon will let developers add their own search-apps also. We believe in an open platform you can control, for the future of search.
I'm beginning to think that someone might be able to knock off Google. Remember Myspace? They were #1 once. Then revenue went down and they compensated by putting in more ads. Then they became irrelevant. Broadcast TV did the same thing. Facebook seems headed down that road.<p>Running a search engine isn't that expensive. Held down to 10% ad content and run with a modest staff, this could work out.
There is a simple way to show your frustration.<p>1. Buy Google stock<p>2. Google has to show more ads to keep market hype on stock price.<p>3. They will fill 2 pages instead of current one page with ads. And then 3 and 4...<p>4. You buy more stock and protect your down side.<p>5. They will insert 2-3 times more ads per video on youtube.<p>At some point the average person will loose Google. You win big on stocks until then.<p>/sarcasm - pls dont do this.
Why would Google fix anything?<p>Google makes money from keeping you clicking. If it shows you want you want right away, then it loses money.<p>Keeping you on a treadmill chasing bits of cheese is how it became a billion-dollar company.
I don’t know if everyone knows that SEO stands for search engine optimization and it is<p>> the process of maximizing the number of visitors to a particular website by ensuring that the site appears high on the list of results returned by a search engine.
Whenever articles like these are published, I wonder who the Author thinks does the work of writing free articles on the Internet just for their pleasure. Content is expensive and is created by writers who must be paid.<p>To demand quality articles from the Internet, you must be willing to pay for them. Nobody exists just to write free passionate articles on the Internet and earn no money from them.