Today, Yahoo announces doing exactly that to Engadget: "...the changes paint a picture of an outlet cutting staff to focus on things like Google traffic, SEO, commerce, and affiliate revenue" 😔
Now, I read the article by HouseFresh that @pluralistic referred to in his post. It's a scathing critique of Google and the miserable job it's doing to protect its search results from being owned by SEO-focused publications.
As someone who spent about a decade of his life blogging as a side gig, I can easily relate to the frustrations felt by the HouseFresh team and similar niche publications.
@random_musings seeing this going for a while too. Almost any Google Search is waste as several pages of results are shallow click bait. This irks me especially when trying to find some specific article I read in the past again but even with exact phrasing it only yields pages over pages of BS before showing me that tiny blog with the real deal I was looking for. Search is broken.
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