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"How Google perfected the web" or how google made everything worst (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

*worse

Edit: though I can see using "worst" as a stylistic choice, even if it's improper

[–] TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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

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

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

I blame Google.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ScribbleAddict@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

Speaking of shitty web pages ... I think I have eye cancer now.

[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 10 points 1 year ago

I'm stuck at a loading screen on The Verge. F that.

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Worse or wurst, pick one.

[–] shiftymccool@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Worse" or "the worst"... unless you were going for sausage 🤷

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

"the worst" doesn't work in this headline because it just sounds like bad English.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Saw all the complaints about the web page, and as someone who likes creative web lanes from time to time, I was curious …

And yea that shit was dumb and embarrassing. Like the verge has had their branding damaged as far as I’m concerned.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, SEO sucks and all, but stop trying to reinvent reading webpages.