Post #1386539

2025-12-27 07:34 UTC

@erik @vikxin @NanoRaptor well.... it's the web itself to blame, or rather the sites on it. we have the same experience with ddg, so as much as we'd love to rag on our abusive alma mater (google), we can't really pin this one on them.

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@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space 2025-12-27 07:35

@erik @vikxin @NanoRaptor it may well be that we are entering an era in which web search is obsolete because humanity prefers not to have knowledge after all

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@erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social 2025-12-27 08:41

@ireneista @vikxin @NanoRaptor Not the existence of slop, but in how they are dealing with it. The web in its current form would not exist without the pressures from the advertising ecosystem that demands conformity to Google’s algorithm. If Google wasn’t rewarding these sites with links and clicks they would stop, so for the moment I will continue to rag on them 😉

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@thibaultmol@en.osm.town 2025-12-27 08:50

@ireneista @erik @vikxin @NanoRaptor right but I think what Erik was getting at is that Kagi (where the screenshot is of) doesn't show those seo slop sites as easily

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@claus@hachyderm.io 2025-12-27 16:48

@ireneista @erik @vikxin @NanoRaptor DDG yes, also Qwant. Ecosia on the other hand did fairly well at minimising SEO slop.

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