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

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212 points pseudolus | 2 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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firecall ◴[21 Nov 24 00:24 UTC] No.42199691[source]▶
Agreed. That’s really my thoughts.

The internet or rather the crawlable WWW itself has changed.

The WWW content itself is no longer what it was.

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1. chipsrafferty ◴[21 Nov 24 00:30 UTC] No.42199725[source]▶
Do you think the proliferation of web frameworks makes it harder to crawl?
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2. thwarted ◴[21 Nov 24 02:10 UTC] No.42200359[source]▶
Probably has some influence. Because everything needs to be an app, implemented as an SPA, rather than just a web page. Hypertext is dead.