SEO has gotten to the point that it actually takes some skill to google things usefully.
So true and breaks my heart. I can feel the increased Googling difficulty, in my bones, over the last 18 months or so. Tragedy of the commons strikes again.
When the Internet was young, I would go straight to cnet.com for device reviews. When Google got good, I would go to Google. Now, I go straight to cnet.com for device reviews.
Interesting to hear. I’ve always had a vague sense that search results aren’t that great in general but haven’t noticed a change over time. Could easily just be me though.
It could be me, too. I used to have to think about SEO when I was in charge of a previous employer’s minimal online marketing/blogging, so plenty of this sensation could be confirmation bias (tendency to blame bad Google results on SEO rather than Google, whose product it is). But I think I can spot a page that was generated primarily through SEO—probably with a better accuracy rate than me differentiating between GPT-3 and Wittgenstein.
So true and breaks my heart. I can feel the increased Googling difficulty, in my bones, over the last 18 months or so. Tragedy of the commons strikes again.
When the Internet was young, I would go straight to cnet.com for device reviews. When Google got good, I would go to Google. Now, I go straight to cnet.com for device reviews.
Interesting to hear. I’ve always had a vague sense that search results aren’t that great in general but haven’t noticed a change over time. Could easily just be me though.
It could be me, too. I used to have to think about SEO when I was in charge of a previous employer’s minimal online marketing/blogging, so plenty of this sensation could be confirmation bias (tendency to blame bad Google results on SEO rather than Google, whose product it is). But I think I can spot a page that was generated primarily through SEO—probably with a better accuracy rate than me differentiating between GPT-3 and Wittgenstein.