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Re:The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit by ska on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:31PM (#38956505)
No, SEO made things noticeably worse from the very beginning. This is almost tautological, when you think about it.

Agree googles machinations have not helped, but disagree with your 90/10 split.

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Re:The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit by calibas on Thursday January 11, 2024 @03:21PM (#38958410)
You can't really separate SEO and the Google algorithms. SEO is a product of the Google's ranking algorithms.

The entire effort of SEO is to either to follow Google's official guidelines, or reverse-engineer how things work to exploit their algorithms. Those whole point of SEO is to score higher on ranking algorithms.

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Re:The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit by ska on Thursday January 11, 2024 @03:36PM (#38958644)
> Those whole point of SEO is to score higher on ranking algorithms.

Which is why they typically make things worse for the end user.

Agree it's a coupled problem wrt ranking algorithm. SEO messes with the algorithms, algorithms change to account for it, lather rinse repeat.

More recently though, google make presentation changes not as simple as ranking, which made things worse. Which I think is what GP was referring to.

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