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

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1743 points caspii | 1 comments | 07 Jun 21 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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colordrops ◴[07 Jun 21 23:43 UTC] No.27428807[source]▶
Google Search is ripe for disruption. It's been over 20 years now and they are not dynamic or interesting at all anymore.
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emodendroket ◴[07 Jun 21 23:44 UTC] No.27428814[source]▶
It's so easy to do better! Just look at what a rousing success Cuil was.
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1. kortilla ◴[08 Jun 21 00:00 UTC] No.27428942{3}[source]▶
Nobody said it would be easy. Industries ripe for disruption are often very hard to break into. Being ripe for disruption is more about giving up on innovating so you stagnate.