Comment by bryanrasmussen

4 months ago

>but actually kinda charmed by this quirky marketing gimmick.

I'm actually pretty annoyed at the stupidity, it's the kind of thing that even a shitty search engine won't be fooled by and hey when I search for Zendesk alternatives I don't see any brand called Zendesk alternative in first few results.

I mean it's like they're too stupid to do what every other weaselly scumbag does, get some fake reviews up comparing your brand to alternatives with the reviews carefully weighted so your target customer base will be uh, I guess Zendesk is really what we want then.

Or at least buy an ad words for the search - with the words Zendesk - There is No Alternative showing up before all the alternatives.

It's ok Zendesk if you use my clever slogan because you can't think of one on your own - I'm not expecting you to pay me for it.

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tredre3  4 months ago

> it's the kind of thing that even a shitty search engine won't be fooled by

Searching `Zendesk alternative` (no s, no quotes):

- Google shows it in the top 5 results.

- Bing shows it on the second page.

- Brave shows it in the middle of the first page.

- DDG doesn't show it.

- Yahoo shows it on page 3

- Yandex doesn't show it

  • bryanrasmussen  4 months ago

    OK google for me doesn't show it, as mentioned, problem with Google is it is difficult to see how your profile is skewing the algorithm, although I also suppose our talking about it here is page ranking it higher.