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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is because of Google's monopoly on search. If there were more search engines, then sites would just focus on making high quality articles instead of trying to play with the monopolists policies

[โ€“] gamermanh 15 points 1 year ago

...what?

If there were multiple search engines (there are) then SEO would focus on whichever were most popular

I've literally done work where SEO included making sure Bing was also optimized for, and I know others who have also done so

More engines would make SEO harder and longer as we assume each engine would search differently, but SEO will creep into any engine that gets popular for the obvious reason of people wanting their content seen

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