openwebsearcheu, German Has Google search quality really dropped? A study by #WebisGroup highlights how affiliate content may be clouding search results. Researchers @phoerious, @mattiwiegmann, @potthast + Benno Stein analysed the effect of SEO spam, finding that affiliate links dominate search results, impacting their quality. This issue affects not only #Google but also #Bing + #DuckDuckGo.
Read more: "Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search Engines": https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf