Their algorithm can rig and election, identify less than a second of copyrighted audio or video, and push to you what keeps you engaged. It does all of this insanely well.
But they "can't" stop the rampant bot problem, from obvious scams posted all over to bots sponsored by Soros and our government to push propaganda.
They "can't" make their search results show relevant information. Nowadays if you search for something simple, all the results are utterly shit. You get nothing but shitty lists thrown together by someone mass producing shitty lists that repeat themselves for SEO. No useful information.
It didn't use to be this way. But these "blogs" figured out how to game the SEO. Google use to actively discourage this type of SEO, because it's obviously bad for their consumers. They actually worked to mitigate it. But now, they just gave up, and probably reverted all their work. I am 100% sure that Google is fully capable of giving good results again; they just don't.
Google figured out how to game themselves is all. Those bots are responsible for massive amounts of adsense revenue. They’re “giving up” all the way to the bank.
Exactly. The root of the problem is that Google is simultaneously a search engine and the largest ads provider for the internet. Google has a vested interest in showing you search results that have the most ads on their websites. I'm not saying they're propping up results directly that have more ads; but I'm saying there is a correlation between websites with aggressive SEO and a high number of ads. Where Google would, in the past, change their algorithm to lower the ranking of websites with clearly aggressive SEO (it's not even that hard to detect when someone is trying to game the system.), I speculate that because of this correlation with ads, they've reverted.
So instead of getting a website that's a page of text and images hosted on someone's home server somewhere that tells you exactly what you need to know in a clean way, you only get articles mass-produced by some "writer" somewhere (he's probably verified on Twitter, though), whose sole job is to write these horrible articles scavenging a minute amount of information from another website to fit in somewhere, mostly just so they have a vessel to attach their SEO onto.
The sad thing is that this minute amount of information they scavenge for now often comes from other articles written like this because they're what appears on Google for the "writers", so it's a huge feedback loop.
What ends up happening is you'll have one decent piece of advice for the problem you're searching for that will be the basis for all of the top search results, where the articles take that brief piece of advice and reword it, surrounding it in ads, and repeating the search query they're targeting over and over within their article.
Their algorithm can rig and election, identify less than a second of copyrighted audio or video, and push to you what keeps you engaged. It does all of this insanely well.
But they "can't" stop the rampant bot problem, from obvious scams posted all over to bots sponsored by Soros and our government to push propaganda.
They "can't" make their search results show relevant information. Nowadays if you search for something simple, all the results are utterly shit. You get nothing but shitty lists thrown together by someone mass producing shitty lists that repeat themselves for SEO. No useful information.
It didn't use to be this way. But these "blogs" figured out how to game the SEO. Google use to actively discourage this type of SEO, because it's obviously bad for their consumers. They actually worked to mitigate it. But now, they just gave up, and probably reverted all their work. I am 100% sure that Google is fully capable of giving good results again; they just don't.
Google figured out how to game themselves is all. Those bots are responsible for massive amounts of adsense revenue. They’re “giving up” all the way to the bank.
Exactly. The root of the problem is that Google is simultaneously a search engine and the largest ads provider for the internet. Google has a vested interest in showing you search results that have the most ads on their websites. I'm not saying they're propping up results directly that have more ads; but I'm saying there is a correlation between websites with aggressive SEO and a high number of ads. Where Google would, in the past, change their algorithm to lower the ranking of websites with clearly aggressive SEO (it's not even that hard to detect when someone is trying to game the system.), I speculate that because of this correlation with ads, they've reverted.
So instead of getting a website that's a page of text and images hosted on someone's home server somewhere that tells you exactly what you need to know in a clean way, you only get articles mass-produced by some "writer" somewhere (he's probably verified on Twitter, though), whose sole job is to write these horrible articles scavenging a minute amount of information from another website to fit in somewhere, mostly just so they have a vessel to attach their SEO onto.
The sad thing is that this minute amount of information they scavenge for now often comes from other articles written like this because they're what appears on Google for the "writers", so it's a huge feedback loop.
What ends up happening is you'll have one decent piece of advice for the problem you're searching for that will be the basis for all of the top search results, where the articles take that brief piece of advice and reword it, surrounding it in ads, and repeating the search query they're targeting over and over within their article.