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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: 0.196s | 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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1. lemmiwinks ◴[08 Jun 21 00:11 UTC] No.27429036[source]▶
The irony being that 20 (more like 25?) years Yahoo search was ripe for disruption... by Google :)

Halt and Catch Fire [1] (As a nerd, I can say it's one of the few TV series that got the hackers spirit correctly) had a few episodes about the Google disruption.

Like some people often say here, things come and go in circles...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series...