Re:Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google
by powerhour on Thursday August 04, 2022 @07:45PM
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It's absurdly common for Google to completely ignore the first term I include in a search. It's not like I typed it just for fun!
Re:Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google
by varispeed on Thursday August 04, 2022 @06:34PM
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Indeed. It was so much easier to find stuff you are looking for a decade ago. Now it is mostly spam or (what really grinds my gears) AI written posts that only after reading it for a while you realise it is all bollocks.
That being said, I remember my cousin had a blog where he was writing utter nonsense about trending topics and he was actually able to pull enough money from Ad Sense to afford a pub crawl once a month.
Now of course all of this is streamlined - one button website generators with AI content and posts for given topic and self optimising for engagement and advert clicks etc.
But I see Google has thrown in the towel and no longer cares for search results.
Their apparently paying a lot less attention to certain things (like link text—"what might someone use to describe a link to this resource, but which might not appear on the resource itself?" used to be a very fruitful way to search), and freely substituting words or dropping terms that are merely not common on hits (but not totally absent from 100% of results) has made this kind of thing impossible.