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Re:Google no longer producing high quality search results in... by o10449366 on Sunday January 02, 2022 @05:33PM (#29774792)
I disagree with the notion that good quality content just doesn't exist anymore. Quality content will always exist and more quality content exists now on the internet than ever before now that it's become more accessible to more people than ever, but Google, Facebook, and Amazon have made this content more difficult to discover because their algorithms reward gamification with profit, incentivizing the production of high-volume and low-quality but highly-optimized content.

People passionate about sharing and learning will always be driven to produce quality content, even if they don't have an audience. The issue is that Google will never discover these people because they're only interested in discovering the best marketers on the internet.

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Re:Google no longer producing high quality search results in... by onion2k on Sunday January 02, 2022 @05:36PM (#29774827)
People passionate about sharing and learning will always be driven to produce quality content, even if they don't have an audience.

Those people moved to content websites like YouTube and Udemy where they can cash in on what they do. They don't make websites any more, so Google doesn't find links to them.

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Re:Google no longer producing high quality search results in... by OldTimeCoffee on Monday January 03, 2022 @07:15AM (#29779987)
While cash is probably some component of it, it's a lot more difficult today to make a professional looking 'modern' website than it was 20 years ago. Conversely, it's a lot easier to make and edit a professional looking video for YouTube than it was 20 years ago. Video will win out when it's the easiest solution.

Google indexes and returns links to YouTube videos for queries now and will even point you to the relevant part if the video uses chapters.

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Re:Google no longer producing high quality search results in... by TheRealDunkirk on Monday January 03, 2022 @08:58AM (#29780793)
> it's a lot more difficult today to make a professional looking 'modern' website than it was 20 years ago

STRONGLY disagree. Wordpress is plenty professional looking and modern, and makes it dead simple to find a hosting service, create a site, choose a theme, and start writing content.

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Re:Google no longer producing high quality search results in... by OldTimeCoffee on Monday January 03, 2022 @10:42AM (#29781820)
From the technical end, absolutely, way easier. From the design end, definitely not. Compare Nintendo's website in 2002[0] and today. Blue's News hasn't really changed layout in a long time and it looks substantially different than a more modern style like IGN which is much more difficult to reproduce.

I can take a video with my phone and upload it to YouTube from my phone. My phone camera can work surprisingly well in poor lighting conditions. I can spend < $100 dollars and get a couple of cheap ring lights and improve the lighting massively. If I wanted to make a spoof news show, I'd just need OBS and a good webcam or a cheap DSLR now. Way easier than in 2002 where I'd need a Video Toaster and tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20020325234352/https://www.ninte...

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