I think it’s simply a question of what are Google’s interests. Users doesn’t pay anything to Google for the service, so that’s not where Google’s interests are. Advertisers pay Google, so that’s where Google’s interests are. Google has no interests to make the search better for users, they want to make it better for advertisers.
To do that, you simply have to inform users about other available search engines and remind them again that those exist when one of their searches fails.
And AI is just making it worse. Entire websites of SEO-optimized content can be generated in seconds now. No one will be able to keep up with all that!
This is a long used lie that has been peddled for at least a decade now.
Google chased off or directly let go most of its actual good talent that originally shaped the search engine into common household usage, and shifted their focus from providing good search results to catering to its advertisers.
The SEO war is kind of bullshit as google has all the access and knowledge to real-time identify SEO wrangling more than any other organization in human history, with the money to fund any number of research and dev groups to fix it.
But they don’t care.
Because people will still use it even if it is shitty, because of momentum and default device settings.
So google doesn’t care, they don’t need to fix it as they are in no risk (at the moment) of losing their top ranking.
Mainly because people are stupid and slaves to momentum.
Or they just cannot complete with literal millions of people attempting to optimize their webpages for discovery using Google.
If other services like kagi can offer better results they should be able as well, right?
I think it’s simply a question of what are Google’s interests. Users doesn’t pay anything to Google for the service, so that’s not where Google’s interests are. Advertisers pay Google, so that’s where Google’s interests are. Google has no interests to make the search better for users, they want to make it better for advertisers.
They still need to make the system appealing to users.
If users had higher standards, then Google would have to meet those standards or lose out on business.
To do that, you simply have to inform users about other available search engines and remind them again that those exist when one of their searches fails.
And AI is just making it worse. Entire websites of SEO-optimized content can be generated in seconds now. No one will be able to keep up with all that!
This is a long used lie that has been peddled for at least a decade now.
Google chased off or directly let go most of its actual good talent that originally shaped the search engine into common household usage, and shifted their focus from providing good search results to catering to its advertisers.
The SEO war is kind of bullshit as google has all the access and knowledge to real-time identify SEO wrangling more than any other organization in human history, with the money to fund any number of research and dev groups to fix it.
But they don’t care.
Because people will still use it even if it is shitty, because of momentum and default device settings.
So google doesn’t care, they don’t need to fix it as they are in no risk (at the moment) of losing their top ranking.
Mainly because people are stupid and slaves to momentum.