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·
    3 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·
      3 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·
      3 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

  • st3ph3n@midwest.socialEnglish
    26·
    3 months ago

    While Google certainly has a lot of responsibility for how shit their search results have become and the effects they have on website operators, the SEO industry can all go eat a giant bag of dicks for being the driving force behind making search results worthless trash.

  • MetaCubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    3 months ago

    I still have a lot of de-googling to do. However at this point, I only use google as a search engine maybe once/month, and it’s frankly usually for the google business info…thing. For everything else, I use Kagi and quite frankly have not looked back. Probably one of the few services that I happily pay for.

  • MSids@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    I bought an Ayn Odin 2 recently and noticed how hard it was to find Russ/Retro Game Corp’s site and videos even when searching directly for retro game corps. It was like the results some days were buried and other times I could find them in the top few.