Study finds "search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam."

I guess we all kinda knew that, but it’s always nice to have a study backing your opinions.

  • KeithEnglish
    7•10 months ago

    Kagi (although recent drama leaves me soured)

    • @ikiddEnglish
      5•10 months ago

      I don’t fathom paying to have your search history catalogued in correlation to your payment info. This will end as it always does, either hacked or enshittified.

      • KeithEnglish
        1•10 months ago

        The fundamental difference is that Kagi is making money from having the better product, not from serving more/better ads.

    • @dcoEnglish
      4•10 months ago

      Love Kagi. What happened with recent drama? Must have missed that.

      • KaynEnglish
        3•10 months ago

        Kagi has started using search results from Brave’s search index. The LGBT community disapproved of this because of past homophobic actions by Brave’s CEO Brendan Eich.

        • @ripcordEnglish
          3•10 months ago

          Oh, that. Yeah, I’m not personally worried that they used it very lightly as one of a dozen sources and then stopped.

          • KeithEnglish
            3•10 months ago

            The problem was mainly their questionable response

          • @UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
            2•10 months ago

            Fool me once…

            Twitter has a similar problem. The more the CEO injects personal politics into the function of the site, the less confidence people have that a new search won’t be fucked with. Whatever you might say about Google, Bing, and Yahoo, their owners have at least kept their politics closer to the chest.

        • @[email protected]English
          -3•10 months ago

          Thats a terrible reason to not use something that works well though. I mean the founder or CEO of any major bank is probably a shit person with bad takes like racism but does it make their banking service any less useful?