"These workers provide critical support that keeps Google’s flagship Search results and Bard AI safe and functional for the company’s billions of users," the union representing the contractors said.
I’m gonna throw just throw this out here. Maybe I’m the last to think of this but I don’t think so. Here goes.
Google search is only a search engine for low-quality websites that have little actual content and are riddled with more Google ads than a diseased sex organ has sores. That’s it. Sites with actual content are ignored because they don’t keep the viewer on the site anywhere near as long and they can’t be forced to play hide-and-seek to find anything between the ads.
Google doesn’t need those workers to make search functional for the same reason they don’t need content moderation on Youtube. The sole purpose is to dishonestly keep you engaged clicking as many sites as possible viewing ad after ad after ad - ad nauseum.
Can you share some examples of what sites with actual content get ignored by google?
Google search may be deeply flawed and declining in quality but I would be surprised if it actually deprioritised quality websites. And I don’t see why a quality website wouldn’t keep a viewer on site as long as a poor quality website.
I doubt they deprioritize websites, but if they over-prioritize sites that conform to their SEO guidelines and host their ads, then the net effect is the same.
And I don’t see why a quality website wouldn’t keep a viewer on site as long as a poor quality website.
Say you ask a question looking for a definitive answer (meaning it's a question that has one). You find a website that tells you that answer right up front. No fluff, no scrolling, no ads, you're in, you're out. You find another site loaded with a introduction that talks a lot and says little, then you scroll past some ads, then you find another paragraph of text, and somewhere buried in between wishy washy word salad, you find your answer.
To Google, the second website is better, because you were "engaged" for a longer amount of time, and maybe you clicked their ad as you scrolled. That page is gonna rank higher in their results. The former page, by consequence, is gonna come second.
Now let's say you have 10 websites like the latter, and 1 like the former. What rank is the former website gonna come in Google search?
Seriously. SEO shouldn't even have been allowed to be a thing. The right thing to do from the beginning would have been to scale up manual reviewing and start warning/banning sites that tried to manipulate PageRank. I guess hindsight is 20/20, but I'd like to believe there was a time when Google wasn't yet evil enough to not care.
Funny how they blame the workers for making them suck, when it’s their own greed-mongering. This will make them even worse.
Sadly, they won’t go under. Just like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and every other cancerous polyp on the internet’s colon, it will go on, supported by its mindless drones that unquestionably consume.
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