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Re:Almost all searches on my independent search engine are n... by tmaly on Monday May 16, 2022 @11:22AM (#31398786)
Everyone is trying to game the Google algorithm. The net result is all this long form content and cooking recipes that are 10 pages long.

There seems to be a big disconnect with a typical users attention span and the length of a post.

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Re:Almost all searches on my independent search engine are n... by ajmurmann on Monday May 16, 2022 @03:51PM (#31402396)
I thought the recipe thing was to be able to copyright them
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Re:Almost all searches on my independent search engine are n... by labster on Monday May 16, 2022 @07:45PM (#31404381)
That’s just gaming a different algorithm.
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Re:Almost all searches on my independent search engine are n... by ajmurmann on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @08:55AM (#31409810)
Yes, butt importantly not one Google or any search engine can do anything about
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