And almost everything you’re talking about is prior to GPT generated content filling the internet. At least when you are reading a blog, it was written by a human being who put care into their work, and if they’re wrong, it’s probably a typo.
We badly need a search engine that’s got human-generated content on the other side, and if anybody is writing SEO tutorials, all they should be able to say is “Don’t be misleading with your content”
A bit before that too. Those ad problems are there already since the start of google ads. They dont get monitored or reports dont get through.
My idea is just to use a forum ( like lemmy ;D ) Those are mostly human created and you can just ask if you still dont know.
Yes, that’s why before Reddit went to shit we all added “reddit” to the search terms. I do miss the old web a lot.
The thing that made Reddit valuable was that it was a bastion of user-generated content. To a great extent, it still is… Unless you happen to be avoiding their website for ethical reasons, which is understandable.
That’s also why they’re trying to hold on to it by any means necessary; they know that the software itself isn’t any good without the data that has been generated using it.
I hope Lemmy search functionality gets better. Right now, it’s pretty slow from an instance, and I haven’t ever seen its stuff pop up in a conventional search engine.
