▲ 602 ▼ Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by rikudou@lemmings.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 120 comments fedilink hide all child comments I guess we all kinda knew that, but it's always nice to have a study backing your opinions.
[–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) Kagi (although recent drama leaves me soured) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) I don't fathom paying to have your search history catalogued in correlation to your payment info. This will end as it always does, either hacked or enshittified. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago* The fundamental difference is that Kagi is making money from having the better product, not from serving more/better ads. permalink fedilink source parent [–] dco@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Love Kagi. What happened with recent drama? Must have missed that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] HKayn@dormi.zone 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) Kagi has started using search results from Brave's search index. The LGBT community disapproved of this because of past homophobic actions by Brave's CEO Brendan Eich. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) Oh, that. Yeah, I'm not personally worried that they used it very lightly as one of a dozen sources and then stopped. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago The problem was mainly their questionable response permalink fedilink source parent [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Fool me once... Twitter has a similar problem. The more the CEO injects personal politics into the function of the site, the less confidence people have that a new search won't be fucked with. Whatever you might say about Google, Bing, and Yahoo, their owners have at least kept their politics closer to the chest. permalink fedilink source parent [–] BobGnarley@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago Thats a terrible reason to not use something that works well though. I mean the founder or CEO of any major bank is probably a shit person with bad takes like racism but does it make their banking service any less useful? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) I don't fathom paying to have your search history catalogued in correlation to your payment info. This will end as it always does, either hacked or enshittified. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago* The fundamental difference is that Kagi is making money from having the better product, not from serving more/better ads. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago* The fundamental difference is that Kagi is making money from having the better product, not from serving more/better ads. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dco@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Love Kagi. What happened with recent drama? Must have missed that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] HKayn@dormi.zone 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) Kagi has started using search results from Brave's search index. The LGBT community disapproved of this because of past homophobic actions by Brave's CEO Brendan Eich. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) Oh, that. Yeah, I'm not personally worried that they used it very lightly as one of a dozen sources and then stopped. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago The problem was mainly their questionable response permalink fedilink source parent [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Fool me once... Twitter has a similar problem. The more the CEO injects personal politics into the function of the site, the less confidence people have that a new search won't be fucked with. Whatever you might say about Google, Bing, and Yahoo, their owners have at least kept their politics closer to the chest. permalink fedilink source parent [–] BobGnarley@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago Thats a terrible reason to not use something that works well though. I mean the founder or CEO of any major bank is probably a shit person with bad takes like racism but does it make their banking service any less useful? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) Kagi has started using search results from Brave's search index. The LGBT community disapproved of this because of past homophobic actions by Brave's CEO Brendan Eich. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) Oh, that. Yeah, I'm not personally worried that they used it very lightly as one of a dozen sources and then stopped. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago The problem was mainly their questionable response permalink fedilink source parent [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Fool me once... Twitter has a similar problem. The more the CEO injects personal politics into the function of the site, the less confidence people have that a new search won't be fucked with. Whatever you might say about Google, Bing, and Yahoo, their owners have at least kept their politics closer to the chest. permalink fedilink source parent [–] BobGnarley@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago Thats a terrible reason to not use something that works well though. I mean the founder or CEO of any major bank is probably a shit person with bad takes like racism but does it make their banking service any less useful? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) Oh, that. Yeah, I'm not personally worried that they used it very lightly as one of a dozen sources and then stopped. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago The problem was mainly their questionable response permalink fedilink source parent [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Fool me once... Twitter has a similar problem. The more the CEO injects personal politics into the function of the site, the less confidence people have that a new search won't be fucked with. Whatever you might say about Google, Bing, and Yahoo, their owners have at least kept their politics closer to the chest. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago The problem was mainly their questionable response permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Fool me once... Twitter has a similar problem. The more the CEO injects personal politics into the function of the site, the less confidence people have that a new search won't be fucked with. Whatever you might say about Google, Bing, and Yahoo, their owners have at least kept their politics closer to the chest. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BobGnarley@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago Thats a terrible reason to not use something that works well though. I mean the founder or CEO of any major bank is probably a shit person with bad takes like racism but does it make their banking service any less useful? permalink fedilink source parent