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Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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I guess we all kinda knew that, but it's always nice to have a study backing your opinions.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I remember pre-Google. There were a few human curated sites back then (like DMoz and Yahoo). I'm thinking that might be a way to combat spam and AI sites. As a side bonus, maybe it will help de-Google the planet.

I'm looking for a Wikipedia-but-for-the-web, where human curators find real web content for me. I found Curlie.org, and tried to sign up for it, but never got a response back on my sign-ups. Still I'm hopeful for something like that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yahoo was DMOZ (its directory used DMOZ data).

DMOZ had 100k volunteers curating the content at some point, and had a whole complex process to prevent abuse and so on. It will be hard to get going again.

But yeah, who would've thought that a mere decade after being discontinued it would become relevant again.