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[Retro Dodo]Google is killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites (retrododo.com)

submitted 8 months ago by TORFdot0 to c/technology

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I know that the source is more focused on retro gaming as a topic but the topic of this post is Google and its pagerank algorithm which is more appropriate for this community.

We’ve all noticed the enshittification of Google Search over the last few months, but it’s still hard to hear how it is affecting content creators and putting them out of business so we can see 20 AI generated spam pages about whatever our query is.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Have you seen it recently? In the last month or two, it feels like they just flipped an enshittification switch and suddenly made the engine completely unusable. Its results are completely fucking bonkers now. Not least of which is because 90% of them are sponsored ads that aren't necessarily relevant to what you searched.

[–] TwilightVulpine 10 points 8 months ago

Now even using quotes and specific sites isn't guaranteed to get what you are looking for...