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Re:Kagi Sidekick (alpha) by Repulsion9513 on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @08:08PM (#39449057)
They want to index companies that sell products. I don't see a big problem here if a company that sells a product I'm searching for, who happens to also have low-quality SEO content, shows up in that search.

In fact, I would rather they not get penalized for it, since low-quality SEO content is a good way to show up in certain other search engines (Google), and every business wants to show up in Google, making that content quite common even from reputable businesses making a quality product.

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Re:Kagi Sidekick (alpha) by thrownaway163 on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @05:11AM (#39452029)
As someone who in a past life spent loads of time doing of SEO I cannot help but find this argument flawed.

So, we shouldn’t penalize low quality, SEO, spam because of people’s wants? I do want them to penalize those sites because they are a disservice and more often than not crappy, unsecured WordPress that drowns out those that are not spam.

Thank you Kagi team! A shame how far Google’s results have fallen.

Edit: also SEO is one of the more seedier parts of the software industry. Tons of unaware small businesses conned into these awful, low quality sites. I literally quit because it was so morally bankrupt.

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Re:Kagi Sidekick (alpha) by Repulsion9513 on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @09:51PM (#39462583)
What is the goal of search? Isn't it to deliver the results that people want to see from their query? So... yeah.

> they are a disservice and more often than not crappy, unsecured WordPress that drowns out those that are not spam

What does that have to do with "reputable businesses making a quality product" as my comment said?

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