The Perfect Webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same.

alyaza [they/she] ( @alyaza@beehaw.org ) · 4 months ago

The Perfect Webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same.

dumples ( @dumples@kbin.social ) · 4 months ago

I’ve really been seeing this for programming questions and it’s infuriating. It’s dozens of different sites that are either copying the one stack overflow forum or an endless repeat of the same question. It wasn’t even 2 years ago that you could find the answer easily. Now it’s all crap and so hard to find the official documentation.

anlumo ( @anlumo@feddit.de ) · 4 months ago

I’ve started to ask ChatGPT first to avoid this.

The Perfect Webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same.

The Perfect Webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same.

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