10 mo. ago • 94%

"How Google perfected the web" or how google made everything worst

www.theverge.com How Google perfected the web

The web is filled with content designed for Google, not humans.

Snippets: For reputable news outlets, the challenge of producing work that Google likes and that meets high-quality standards is magnified; you can’t fill articles with SEO-bait keywords without readers noticing.

The sleazier SEO strategists have already caught on, waiting and hoping for their chance to exploit whatever Google prioritizes. There are product recommendation articles with titles like “Best Espresso Machine Reddit 2023” and entire websites filled with reviews “according to Reddit” that appear to be fake accounts talking to each other. Some subreddits are overrun with affiliate link spam.

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*worse

Edit: though I can see using "worst" as a stylistic choice, even if it's improper

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Just gonna leave this here, since the verge is so 'fancy': The perfect site

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- Boo, what a blatant copy of the https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ /s
  
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  Dang, thats the one I meant! Had to search it and only found this one.
  
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  Yeah but I like @tale's link better since it's not so potty-mouthed.
  
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- This was hilarious to read right after the verge. I couldn't stop smiling while reading it. It actually feels like a breath of fresh air considering all of the SEO sites I find myself reading lately lol.
  
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Is anyone else on a high DPI monitor seeing how wild this site design looks?

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- It looks like ass on a regular phone display. I don't know what that design is called or why it exists, but it needs to not be a thing.
  
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- Yeah it's madness
  
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  It's not even loading for me (Vivaldi on Android). I ran it through Textized. It's on the Verge alright... verge of unreadability 🙄
  
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Speaking of shitty web pages ... I think I have eye cancer now.

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I'm stuck at a loading screen on The Verge. F that.

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Worse or wurst, pick one.

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- "Worse" or "the worst"... unless you were going for sausage 🤷
  
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  "the worst" doesn't work in this headline because it just sounds like bad English.
  
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Saw all the complaints about the web page, and as someone who likes creative web lanes from time to time, I was curious …

And yea that shit was dumb and embarrassing. Like the verge has had their branding damaged as far as I’m concerned.

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- Yeah, SEO sucks and all, but stop trying to reinvent reading webpages.
  
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