Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says - eviltoast

I guess we all kinda knew that, but it’s always nice to have a study backing your opinions.

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      11 months ago

      I don’t fathom paying to have your search history catalogued in correlation to your payment info. This will end as it always does, either hacked or enshittified.

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        The fundamental difference is that Kagi is making money from having the better product, not from serving more/better ads.

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      11 months ago

      Love Kagi. What happened with recent drama? Must have missed that.

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        Kagi has started using search results from Brave’s search index. The LGBT community disapproved of this because of past homophobic actions by Brave’s CEO Brendan Eich.

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          Oh, that. Yeah, I’m not personally worried that they used it very lightly as one of a dozen sources and then stopped.

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            11 months ago

            Fool me once…

            Twitter has a similar problem. The more the CEO injects personal politics into the function of the site, the less confidence people have that a new search won’t be fucked with. Whatever you might say about Google, Bing, and Yahoo, their owners have at least kept their politics closer to the chest.

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          11 months ago

          Thats a terrible reason to not use something that works well though. I mean the founder or CEO of any major bank is probably a shit person with bad takes like racism but does it make their banking service any less useful?