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Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change

2 years ago by dantheclamman to c/technology

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Search visibility for Game Informer, Kotaku and Dexerto is down by over 60%
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capt_wolf 61 points 2 years ago

This sort of thing is why Google's monopoly on the internet is so dangerous.

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NoIWontPickAName 43 points 2 years ago

Because they are making so that we get less results that are just cheating the system to show up at the top?

SEO is a bastardization of a useful tool, solely meant to game the system artificially

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jacksilver 4 points 2 years ago

If there were more search systems/engines there would be a wider variety of ways search results are optimized. Meaning SEO would have a greater level of diminishing returns. Having a single player creates a single point of weakness in search.

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NoIWontPickAName 0 points 2 years ago

There are a ton of them, the problem is none of them are as good as google.

I hear there are good pay ones, though I have never tried one.

I can usually find what I need on google pretty damn quick, although I have seen the end page more than once

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abhibeckert 3 points 2 years ago

I can usually find what I need on google pretty damn quick

It depends what you're searching for. Some things are very hard to find that used to be easy.

The solution I'd like to see is for Google to stop being anticompetitive. For example it just leaked that they pay half of their company wide profits to Apple in order to stop Apple from using (or creating) another search engine.

Stop spending tens of billions of dollars per year trying to keep competition away, and instead invest all of that money into making Google Search a better product.

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JohnEdwa 4 points 2 years ago

They also pay Mozilla over $400 million a year for the same. And as around 90% of the income for Mozilla is from the search engine deals, they'd go out of business without them.

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runefehay 3 points 2 years ago

Mozilla wouldn't be struggling if another monopoly (Microsoft) hadn't destroyed their company.

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