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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: 0.335s | 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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jamiek88 ◴[07 Jun 21 23:00 UTC] No.27428410[source]▶
Ugh Pinterest results.
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wlesieutre ◴[07 Jun 21 23:25 UTC] No.27428673[source]▶
I swear, Pinterest must have employees working undercover in the Image Search team for Google to have let them destroy image search results the way they have.

It's literally never the original source for anything, but you can bet it's most of the first 10 pages of results. Then it doesn't even let you right click to open the image file, and dumps you to a login prompt if you click on anything. THAT'S NOT EVEN YOUR IMAGE STOP TELLING ME WHAT I CAN DO WITH IT.

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bobcostas55 ◴[08 Jun 21 01:05 UTC] No.27429452[source]▶
Really makes you wonder if the people at google actually use their own product. Anyone who has ever used google image search in the past couple of years will have noticed that it's filled to the brim with garbage results from pinterest.
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1. visarga ◴[08 Jun 21 03:16 UTC] No.27430265[source]▶
I have fallen in love with Yandex image similarity search (search by providing a query image, not text). You can find so much more with it, it's like Pinterest but without the crap. For example I could find images for my ML model but also furniture ideas for my house and check if my kid is objectively cuter than average (lol, yeah, objectively!).