Comment by willvarfar
1 year ago
I think a case can be made that the spam problem can be traced all the way back to Google buying Doubleclick.
Its really easy to spot the crap websites that are scaping content-creating websites ... because they monetize by adding ads.
If Google was _only_ selling ads on the search results page, then it could promote websites that are sans ads.
Instead, it is incentivised to push users to websites that contain ads, because it also makes money there.
And that means scraping other sites to slap your ads onto them can be very profitable for the scammers.
They hired people who introduce Jack Welch methods.
This is like in that Steve Jobs video about product people being kicked out and exchanged by ones who dont care about product:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4
They will not make good search. That is not their priority.
We need a Reverse Google search that will weed out the garbage.
https://kagi.com/ de-prioritizes SEO ad sites and also lets you blacklist sites from your search reaults. Never going back to google after trying it
Doesn't seem to be doing great? The example search I got on their home page was 'best headphones' which pretty immediately surfaces http://www.quietheadphones.com/ - which is openly for sale, and also covered in affiliate links.
A bit farther down the page is a 'best headphones for 2020' article.
And this is the example result set they push on the home page to a potential buyer.
You guys pay for this thing?
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I've also been using (and paying for) Kagi for a few months now. It's fantastic.
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I’ve been toggling between Kagi and Perplexity, can honestly say I don’t miss google search (still use maps though)
Reverse of Google Search is also Google Search, due to how the ranking works.