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Re:Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Ba... by Terry_Roll on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:22AM (#30161559)
And the more this happens, the worse the search results will get because measuring popularity of a link and time spent on a website needs to be measured for ranking purposes, next time someone used the same search term.
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Re:Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Ba... by bsagdiyev on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:24AM (#30161572)
Google search seemed to work fine before that stuff was tracked.
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Re:Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Ba... by qwytw on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:29AM (#30161595)
That's because way less people were trying to game it.
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Re:Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Ba... by floatingatoll on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:55AM (#30164163)
And because websites used to link to other websites for non-profitable reasons (blogs, directories, and webrings).
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Re:Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Ba... by ohgodplsno on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:28AM (#30161590)
*according to Google.

I spend 5 minutes on american recipe websites to scroll through the SEO bullshit before finding the actual recipe, but that doesn't mean it's useful.

So, no, it's just Google telling you to let them collect analytics on every aspect of your life for "search improvement purposes".

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Re:Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Ba... by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:46AM (#30161729)
also the worse the search results will get if someone put a bunch of ads in before the search results for people to click on instead of the search results.
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