Comment on Has Google’s search results drastically declined for anyone else?
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes. If you do a search on this site for post about google, you’ll find multiple threads about this. Basically it seems that google is losing the arms race against SEO, and new LLM bots are mostly responsible.
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
It was bad before LLM spam became widespread, it’s just even worse now.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes, there’s a great article i read a while back about how and why recipe web sites became so bad and frustrating. Basically, a good website which show you the recipe, you would read it and leave. However, since you didn’t spend much time on the site, google would rank it much lower.
On the other hand, if you encountered a long rambling story they had to read through and scroll through ads, before getting to the useful information, that the google would rank the site higher because you spent more time on it. That’s why there are so many memes about how bad the recipe website are.
And of course, even before LLMs, it was trivial to implement a copy paste bot to create a massive number of web sites.