The web is filled with content designed for Google, not humans.
  • Scrubber0777English
    7·
    6 months ago

    People should read the article, despite what the post title might suggest.

    It’s about Google SEO steering web contents into repetitive-buzz-word-filled articles.

    A deeper dive into how its homogenising the internet and its affect on content creators.

    Poor choice of post title though.

    • HidingCat@kbin.socialOP
      1·
      6 months ago

      I didn’t realise it, I just pasted the link and let Kbin figure out the data. I guess it read from an internal working title instead of the actual title (which isn’t much better, it’s “The Perfect Webpage”)

      I do feel like this is why I don’t really hang around the fediverse that much; it’s like the opposite end of the spectrum of right-wingers who go nuts when “communism” or “socialism” is mentioned, just that it’s any mention of “capitalism”. Kneejerk reactions either way.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      I think you mean read “past” the title.

      And you would be correct, because why would anyone red past a title so full of BS?

      Google didn’t perfect the web, anything but. If it’s a hyperbolic title, we’ll then it fails to get me to click because it’s not interesting: I already know Google didn’t perfect the web, so I doubt the author has anything I’d care to read.

      Now, if it said “How Google Fucked the Web”, I may click.

      Thing is, I knew from the first year of Google how they were going to fuck the web, simply by being so much better at search, everyone would default to them, which is a bad thing.

  • HidingCat@kbin.socialOP
    3·
    6 months ago

    The animations showing the transformation of a page into a blah-SEO clone really sold the article for me. Really reminds me of how shitty the “modern” web is nowadays. I also think it’s time I signed up for Kagi.