What's Going on at Google? Massive Search Engine Spam Attack

Re:What's Going on at Google? Massive Search Engine Spam Attack by fliggertiggy on Friday December 22, 2023 @06:04PM (#38739657)

Google is unusable for finding unknown things. If you know exactly what you're looking for like the local restaurant then it's fine but for everything else I use Bing, ChatGPT or Phind. On Bing, DDG and others my game [1] which has quite a following now is at the top of the results followed by a fan's clone of the original game; these are what people are looking for. On Google it's all spammy advertising sites with embedded copycat content... Google is an advertising company so go figure. My site could be faster but it still shouldn't be beaten by spammy sites farming links to each other.

[1] https://redactle.net

(I work for msft my opinions are my own.)

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Re:What's Going on at Google? Massive Search Engine Spam Attack by djmips on Friday December 22, 2023 @10:22PM (#38741340)

When I googled redactle the first site was some fan site. The second was one of your sites (anybrowser). The third was Reddit which linked directly to your sites. Then came a pair of unlimited sites. Finally your .net site so not terribly deep and it also came in third in a away. All in all it's not ideal but not 'all spammy advertising sites'

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Re:What's Going on at Google? Massive Search Engine Spam Attack by fliggertiggy on Monday December 25, 2023 @10:32PM (#38768699)

Nice to know. There are actually several Redactle unlimited sites as someone was trying to impersonate my branding.

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