Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

  • CliveRosfield@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The natural degredation of google just comes down to the incredibly stupid levels of search engine optimization and ads. Most articles in particular are so terrible, I’m convinced a lot of them are just written by bots. What I want are answers actually written by humans on discussion boards with a rating system. That’s what made me add “reddit” to the end of everything. Genuine humans, NOT people being paid to write articles or ads.

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      1 year ago

      Not necessarily by bots, but a lot of product-related articles - say, “What’s the best washing machine?” or “What’s the best hot wire cutter?” or anything like that - will have multiple near-identical articles across multiple websites with links for each product generating a kickback for the author. Whereas Reddit was just people talking.

      Articles like that are probably starting to be written by AI for sure though. You could write an article on every type of product that way, and get kickbacks from all of them, all while depriving people of actual useful info. Woo, innovation!