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The man who killed Google Search?

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1884 points elorant | 1 comments | 23 Apr 24 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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KaoruAoiShiho ◴[23 Apr 24 18:45 UTC] No.40135615[source]▶
While entertaining it doesn't actually say anything about what the villain guy actually did, am I crazy? There's 2 serious charges he levied to google.

1. Ads look more like results.

2. Google results got more useless spam.

While 1 is kinda icky it's not that big of a deal, especially since I use an adblocker... and for 2 why does the author think this is the fault of google? Does shittier results increase in more people using google? I feel like it's the opposite, this doesn't seem right to me. Can it not just be that spammers and SEO freaks got more sophisticated and the problem got more challenging?

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1. bitvoid ◴[23 Apr 24 19:09 UTC] No.40135925[source]▶
Per the article, they purposefully rolled back suppression of spammy results:

> In the March 2019 core update to search, which happened about a week before the end of the code yellow, was expected to be “one of the largest updates to search in a very long time. Yet when it launched, many found that the update mostly rolled back changes, and traffic was increasing to sites that had previously been suppressed by Google Search’s “Penguin” update from 2012 that specifically targeted spammy search results, as well as those hit by an update from an August 1, 2018, a few months after Gomes became Head of Search.