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A storefront for robots: The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other. (www.theverge.com)

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[-] fouc@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

You search for anything slightly niche, everything past page one is just rubbish. It's especially jarring when searching for something programming related and 80% of the results are auto-generated stuff scraped from Stack overflow. It reminds me of Amazon where you search for a product and almost all results are chinese-made clones of what you are looking with randomly generated names.

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

It reminds me of Amazon where you search for a product and almost all results are chinese-made clones of what you are looking with randomly generated names

This is a big factor as to why I shop at Amazon much, much less nowadays. Can't find anything reputable outside of major brands, just feels like a market for dropshipped items

Things weren't anywhere near this bad a decade ago 😒