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

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1743 points caspii | 3 comments | 07 Jun 21 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.613s | 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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rickspencer3 ◴[08 Jun 21 00:15 UTC] No.27429066[source]▶
Neeva.com

I am in the pre-release program. The hardest initial thing to get used to was not immediately scrolling down to the bottom to avoid all of the spam.

I suspect that their methods are not much different than Google, but the experience has been so much better.

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1. luke2m ◴[08 Jun 21 01:18 UTC] No.27429548[source]▶
I would rather not have a required sign in to a search engine, but looks interesting.
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2. texasbigdata ◴[08 Jun 21 02:05 UTC] No.27429842[source]▶
That just implies locking into an ad supported model. Personally, would prefer to pay. Stewart Russel wrote in his book that when surveying humans the value they ascribed to not being able to google fo a year was something like $17,000 per year. Just some absurd number.
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3. justinbaker84 ◴[08 Jun 21 02:18 UTC] No.27429915[source]▶
It is not an ad supported model - it is a subscription model. I just signed up for it.