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The Verge shows how Google search is useless (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The Verge published this spam article about the "best printers of 2024" to demonstrate how terrible Google's search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search "best printer" on Google.

I love a good, informative troll.

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[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To be fair when Google solved SEO spam in 1999, thanks to pagerank, it was no small feat. The others were bad not because they abused ads but because they didn't know how to deal with cheating webmasters.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why can't someone replicate old Google pagerank?

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Pagerank worked first, but SEO adapted since with link farming.