Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites
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It honestly breaks my heart to write this article, but I want to be as transparent as possible with our readers because you are the ones that have quite literally…View Post

I know that the source is more focused on retro gaming as a topic but the topic of this post is Google and its pagerank algorithm which is more appropriate for this community.

We’ve all noticed the enshittification of Google Search over the last few months, but it’s still hard to hear how it is affecting content creators and putting them out of business so we can see 20 AI generated spam pages about whatever our query is.

  • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    472·
    7 months ago

    …months?

    Homie, Google search took a downturn in 2012, then a sharp downturn in 2018.

    Months??

    Over a decade.

    • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      7 months ago

      It was so good in 2004. It would find the good shit until people gamed the backlink strategy to the point Google stopped really using it

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      In the last few months there has been the highly visible changes that include adding the generative AI search experience but you are right. Google search has been getting more and more useless as time has gone on