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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by lopis on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:02AM (#24918215)
A very, very small amount of your search queries would be even tangentially related to Apple. Right now, Google has all the incentive of directing traffic away from quality websites and onto pages that fit their plans. AMP gets promoted to reward publishers who publish content in a strict Google -flavoured format. Pages with Google ads can be promoted if Google detects good ad engagement in them. Websites are totally diluted with ridiculous amount of useless blabla become SEO is the way. Just try to find any recipe these days. Virtually all pages make you scroll through 50 paragraphs of foreplay before the actual content appears.

I dislike Apple. I'll never buy Apple. But Apple might just create the best search engine there is, with the right incentives.

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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by marta_morena_28 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:37AM (#24919993)
Interesting, right? I wonder who actually reads all this filler material. If I can't seem to find what I was looking for on a website within one or two seconds I click back and check the next one. If everyone would do that, sites that organize their information like an attention blackhole, would very soon disappear ;(.
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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by xdavidliu on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:39AM (#24920020)
> Websites are totally diluted with ridiculous amount of useless blabla become SEO is the way.

Can you rephrase this sentence? There's a point you're making in this sentence that I'm not getting, and I would like to. Thanks

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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by lopis on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:55AM (#25043975)
> Websites are totally diluted with ridiculous amount of useless blabla because SEO is the way.

My bad.

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