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Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies"

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212 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 21:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Ancalagon ◴[20 Nov 24 22:25 UTC] No.42198762[source]▶
Hopefully this is a step in the right direction. Google's search results have gotten so bad - seems like even some of the simplest searches are just packed with AI generated and SEO garbage. I don't even want SearchGPT do take over the search market space because I'm almost sure it will still be garbage. Just bring back the google from 5-10 years ago please :(.
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paxys ◴[20 Nov 24 23:17 UTC] No.42199148[source]▶
> Just bring back the google from 5-10 years ago please

What you really want is the internet from 5-10 years ago (really even longer than that), and that's not coming back.

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1. kevinmchugh ◴[20 Nov 24 23:51 UTC] No.42199433[source]▶
Google search degraded in usefulness before the panda update, when spammers had filled the web with low quality content designed to exploit Google's algorithms. Google improved their search to punish the content farms, and people were happy with that search for many years.