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.

  • 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