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How Google is killing independent sites like ours::And why you shouldn’t trust product reviews from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google.
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SEO has been a plague in search engines for almost as long as they have existed. Unfortunately combatting it is an endless cat and mouse game, as there will always be some who will devise new ways to game the system. With how commercialised the web has become there’s enormous incentive to do so.
I’m also not convinced Google has much intention of really fixing it. They already have a monopoly on search, and as an advertising company are unlikely to want to upset the big media companies exploiting their search engine.
Google actually has an incentive not to make search too good. That means less time looking through search results, seeing ads, and less time hopping between 5 different sites trying to find what you need, seeing ads on each one.
Ad networks are a plague.
Google actually has an incentive not to make search too good.
This is sometimes ominously referred to as perverse incentive.
The total annihilation of the advertising industry is on my utopian wish list.
They don’t have a monopoly on good search results. I rarely use Google anymore and I do not miss it at all.
Which search engine do you use?
I’ve started to use Duckduckgo but it’s a bit hit and miss.Mostly Duck Duck Go (which draws from Bing).
I moved from Google Search to Kagi, and I really like it. It’s a bit expensive though the experience is really nice, and you know where you stand with them as a customer, regarding their priorities/motivations.
And Google is still better at getting me what I want than their competitor. I get what I want from Bing 2/10 times and Bing fails every time it’s a deeper topic
Lying about testing a product in order to get people to buy it so you can get your affiliate revenue sounds like fraud to me. Seems like the kind of thing that should lead to lawsuits and potentially criminal charges. Not that anyone would actually try to do something about this or most other problems facing consumers.
It’s frustrating there are so many bad reviews when it’s not like basic material testing is that complicated. If a few of these media conglomerates just ripped off the things Project Farm does to branch out what products are tested, that would be immensely helpful. As a bonus, much of his testing is actually interesting to watch, so you’d actually be generating double the content, the review and the test itself.
I do enjoy Project Farm is testing more household items these days. The trashbag torture tests this week were good. He tests enough catagories that with whatever item he’s testing, you can see what is the best value for daily use or what to get when you really need something to work no matter what you throw at it.
I’ve purchased a few things after listening to him yell at me for 20 minutes. The reviews are useful, but I wouldn’t watch for pleasure.
Lol he is loud I guess. I’m surrounded by louder people, so I don’t notice. 😁
You can always skip to the results chart at the end. I do that for things I’m kinda interested in but will probably never buy.
I don’t check out these sites…
I just buy the top 5 in a category. Test em. Return 4.
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Just add “Reddit” tag to everything and cross link multiple posts talking about that content. Basically do the work for me of having to filter through so many threads and answers. Yeah sucks to be this co depending but this would generate clicks and catch people who search for “product x Reddit”. Of course you lose those who filter by site:reddit.com. I also hope Lemmy gets big to get rid of this Reddit codependency, because I want way less manipulated information but not from Reddit which becomes more and more astroturfed. I think it’s a pipedream to get completely rid of it but at least these responses are useful most of the time and not SEO optimized.
Which is why anyone who’s ever helped on reddit should’ve sucked it up and FullDeleteSuited their account.
I lost so much, but did it anyway.
Then again I’ll be sucking it up and going back soon for anime and media discussions soon. Unfortunately there’s nowhere populated enough.
They stored all the edits, from before the API changes. They can and have undeleted entire accounts. I agree that deleting the account would be nice, but they acted in bad faith from the Digg migration that I saw. I don’t believe that deleting the accounts worked, cause I did and I can find my old posts again.
I don’t disagree that Google is crap, but who the fuck is House Fresh?
Well, that’s kind of their point.
It appears their content starts in 2022, and they have less than 100 articles. Most of it trash. I’m pretty sure Google isn’t the reason they suck.
I only trust impassioned long form comments from people who are either livid or in love.
Nobody is gonna spoof a review where a given air conditioner let’s them sloppy fuck their overweight cougar hookup more comfortably, or how a shitty frying pan got them closer to bludgeoning their loud neighbors with it, and perhaps it’s only redeeming value would be as said blunt instrument of violence.
When you find those reviews you know you are on it.
Does anybody even open articles like “N best X of YYYY!”, or “N things that will X your Z!”
Oh man… I X my Z on the regular 😀
Is Xing your Zs bad for your Y? The answer may surprise you!
When you are desperate to find the best X of YYYY and there is nothing else, but even then, if it looks too generated I skip it
No, but then again, no one these days ever falls for hoaxes, either.
