It’s Not Just You - The Internet is Dying
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ม.ค. 2024
- New research confirms that search engines are getting worse.
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This is what happens when marketing people get to make grown up decisions.
The Internet is entering late-stage Capitalism.
The golden age of the internet ended when forums got killed off by five websites that make everybody angry all the time and where you can't find anything. There used to be thousands of forums preserving years or decades of accumulated institutional knowledge about any topic you could imagine, run by and for people who cared about that topic specifically. But this wasn't profitable for the corporations that hijacked the internet, so now we all have to share one big kiddy pool that anybody can piss in at their leisure.
The algorithm is only valuable when nobody knows that the algorithm is there.
We’re seeing the same crap happen with SEO that we saw when American news and journalism television moved to a ratings model. Informative reporting got put on the back burner in favor of sensationalism, entertainment, and manufactured outrage.
Dead Internet Theory is quickly becoming a reality.
Just yesterday, I watched a youtube video that was obviously voiced by AI. Was 95% filler (literally 2 sentence was the entire valuable content). All the comments I could see were bot-generated.
Google literally disabled the feature where you can put stuff in quotation marks if you want an exact match. It's ridiculous
I hate that when I search on youtube, it gives me 3 results then a massive amount of side categories that aren't search results like, "Watch again" "also for you" "people also watched". JUST GIVE ME MY GD SEARCH RESULTS!!!!!
I donate like $25 every year to Wikipedia. They were instrumental in me getting my college degree. Finding reliable resources for complex astronomy and physics phenomena outside long-winded and overly verbose textbooks was near impossible at the time. Made studying so much more efficient.
Search is definitely getting worse on TH-cam. Too many suggestions for "things you'll like" rather than, y'know, what I was fucking searching for.
SEO has been poison since day one and its just getting worse year on year.
Internet is less and less an actual valuable part of people's lives these days and more a cesspool of noise and algorithms and retention sites
Rossmann has noted that good parts and things you could get on Amazon 10 years ago, have become crap,
The problem is that Google tries to guess what you are searching instead of giving you the results what you are searching for.
I noticed the beginning of radical decline in internet quality at around 2017ish. It went from the fastest way of getting good information to still being the fastest but very annoying and much slower at the same thing. I really think will get to the point where search engines will be unusable and you will have to directly go to sites you know.
google got caught substituting what you are actually searching for with similar results but with ads that pay better. you search for shoes it changes it to "nike shoes" on the back end.
This is a result of the internet becoming nothing but a massive marketing machine. The internet is no longer about entertainment or information, it's about pushing ads.
Yeah I noticed the worsening of search results a while back. I used to be able to find really good info on car repairs, but now most search are irrelevant or plain take you to Amazon garbage links.
Me, looking up an article for mountain bike shocks.