- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
Google regularly launches updates to its algorithm to continuously improve search results quality. Think of these updates as a refresh of the system where rankings change: some websites see an improvement while others see a decline.
We know that at the end of the day, Google will reward us if our readers find our articles useful.
Or that’s what we thought.
You might have noticed that no matter what you google, there’s always a selection of the same publishers showing up at the top of the results.
Worst I ever seen of this is when discord was doing some NFT bullshit and everyone spent a week doing a boycott and making it clear they were never going to see a dime out of them, then Discord did like a 40% off sale on Nitro and suddenly they all went 😵[boink] 😃💰
Nobody is against capitalism because it’s an immoral system, just because it isn’t benefiting them personally enough, it’s fucking exhausting.
Same with Reddit. They are now selling user data happily after their entire userbase revolted. Now nobody has a problem.
They don’t want change, they just want to feel something for once in their shitty lives.