• Tigbitties@kbin.social
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    Google SEO has homogenized the internet with vapid marketing content. The internet is one big commercial. The reason Reddit got popular was because communities found and shared good content and created more by talking about it. Now ads are disguised as posts and memes.

    The internet is getting as bad as radio.

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      The internet is getting as bad as radio.

      Lemmy kinda feels like the 2000’s internet and I love it

      edit: formatting

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        Yeah. I’m noticing when things get too big, undesirables start creeping in.

        ‘Undesirable’ in this sense would be people with more money than sense and incredibly low standards for what they spend it on. They are the kinds that are proud to be ripped off and businesses will cater to them over smarter folk.

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        Yup and hopefully only the beginning. The fediverse is like a better internet without big tech.

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    The fact is hardly anyone publishes on the web anymore. Every time someone complains about Google search I look them up and discover they don’t have a website.

    They have an Instagram and a YouTube and a Facebook and a Twitter account, all of which may or may not be accessible to some degree to a logged out web browser. Never a website though.

    What do they think is going to show up in a search when all the content these days is published in walled garden social media apps?

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    1 year ago

    translation: Google Search is still an important tool, but it is no longer the only way people find information.

  • N01R3@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been looking for a replacement for Google Keep for so long and can not seem to find one.

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    I hope it’s true, but honestly I don’t believe sites and opinions that have to do with google from sites like the verge.
    Because sites like the verge are in reality rivals to google. For example verge is owned by voxmedia which has an advertising company and a web advertsing platform. They are rivals to google which also is an advertising company. They hate google because they want google’s money lol. I seriously doubt they can be objective especially to google.

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    1 year ago

    In fact, the site’s original name, BackRub, was a reference to the backlinks it was using to rank results.

    Oh, I’m so gonna be using the original name from this moment on. “Have you backrubbed it?”