If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?

Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by SahAssar on Saturday March 19, 2022 @10:04AM (#30733774)

Different types of these strategies have been around since before google existed. Hell, even web directories (like early yahoo!) had to deal with spam, early google had to deal with keyword spam. Paid backlinks, spammed comment sections with backlinks, copied content sites as backlink farms, all of this existed at least as early as 2005-ish. For some sites (some of them with legitimate info) the meta keywords tag (even though google stopped using it very early) was the bulk of their size for just this reason.

What has so radically changed the last couple of years to make spam take top spots on the SERP?

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by jstummbillig on Saturday March 19, 2022 @04:15PM (#30737174)

This is not 2005 spam. This is just how people are expected to write now. More people think it's normal. By spam being more content-like, and, in response, content getting inspired by spam and getting more spam-like, spam is getting increasingly indistinguishable from content.

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