Aggressive SEO tactics are ruining search results on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, a team of researchers in Germany says.

Google is getting worse as it loses its fight against search engine spam::Aggressive SEO tactics are ruining search results on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, a team of researchers in Germany says.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    11 months ago

    Adding “site:” before a search string can help if you know what you’re looking for. Like site:wikipedia or site:GitHub.com

    This kills off AI spam by constricting search results to pages from that site.

    But google’s other problem that this doesn’t solve (just like Amazon) is that the first few results are always paid ads, and not actual search results.

    • sanpo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Right, except if I knew beforehand which site has the results I need, why would I even use Google?

      • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        Sites that have discussions almost always have useless search functions. Using site: on those would likely give you better results then searching globally (even if it takes multiple searches).