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The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

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1743 points caspii | 5 comments | 07 Jun 21 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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ilamont ◴[07 Jun 21 22:47 UTC] No.27428272[source]▶
Same story for various Wordpress plugins and widgety things that live in site footers.

Google has turned into a cesspool. Half the time I find myself having to do ridiculous search contortions to get somewhat useful results - appending site: .edu or .gov to search strings, searching by time periods to eliminate new "articles" that have been SEOed to the hilt, or taking out yelp and other chronic abusers that hijack local business results.

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1. naikrovek ◴[07 Jun 21 23:03 UTC] No.27428441[source]▶
google isn't the cesspool, people who want to appear at the top of a list of search results are doing whatever it takes to create a cesspool, because that's what it takes to earn more money.

being willing to make other things in order to have more money always creates cesspools.

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2. Retric ◴[07 Jun 21 23:09 UTC] No.27428507[source]▶
Google is a cesspool because it’s their job to fix it and they failed. I stopped using Google search because of how far it’s fallen.
3. beepbooptheory ◴[07 Jun 21 23:13 UTC] No.27428552[source]▶
If its the only way to make money, it doesn't really feel like the burden is on the people to make a cleaner pool
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4. prepend ◴[07 Jun 21 23:53 UTC] No.27428886[source]▶
Google’s mission was “organize the world’s information and make it useful” and they are doing a poorer job now than historically.

Of course there are scammers, that’s part of what makes organizing so hard.

Cynically, I think that Google is worse as filtering scammers is because they care less now. Half the page is ads so they make money either way.

5. naikrovek ◴[08 Jun 21 01:31 UTC] No.27429649[source]▶
there is never only a single way to make money. some ways are easier. some ways let you take advantage of others; these are of the variety that create cesspools.