Did SEO experts ruin the internet or did Google? - The Verge - eviltoast
  • MudMan@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That article downplays SEO and mostly argues that Google is responsible, and it still gives Google way too much credit. I mean, it’s gonna take a lot more evidence to make me believe they broke the internet by accident, for one. People knew all this crap would happen before Google was even a thing.

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      1 year ago

      Greed broke it. Mostly Google’s, but you’re right, if it weren’t Google, it would have been someone else.

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        It already was someone else. I am old enough to remember when all these conversations (and the very accurate warnings about algorithmic filtering and artificial content promotion) being directed at Altavista and Yahoo.