I’ve got two off the top of my head:
First is that the design of the USB drives needing to be oriented up or down was the result of a minor cost cutting choice. The inventor regrets it because it wouldn’t been easy made so that USB drives were reversible.
Second is the abundance of pointless SEO stuff on recipe pages. It would be a cool opportunity for the creator to add a personal touch to the recipe page beneath the recipe, but they pop in first along with ads and suggested links. And they’re so frustrating to navigate that they had to incorporate a ‘jump to recipe’ button.
Unrelated to the post, but the recipe seo bloat isn’t a universal thing.
Searching for lasagne recipes in English, first 2 results are packed with seo. 6 out of first 10 results have significant amounts of filler and 1 has a moderate amount of it.
Searching for it in Turkish, only the 3rd result among the first 10 has a moderate amount of filler, with the rest having little to none. I looked through all results in Google and none had a significant amount of seo filler, but about half had a moderate amount.
If filler in recipe websites actually made results higher on its own, it would be the meta everywhere. I think people just keep clicking on the first few results in general which reinforces whatever Google thinks people want and creates a feedback loop
I don’t really even use standard search engines when looking for recipes, and assuredly not google. Lately for me the most effective way is searching a term on Tiktok and then watching like 10-20ish videos on the subject and coming up with my own recipe, or that in combination with chatgpt or w/e to create a unique recipe.
Unless it’s a really complicated food I usually look at a bunch of ingredient lists and glance over the steps and improvise from there.
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