Google promises to make search results useful (yes, this is a 2022 post)

It shouldn’t surprise me that in 2022 this is a news headline, but Google is now saying it will prioritize real reviews over clickbait, something you might have assumed they’d be doing all along. But apparently not!

Click the image to see the Verge story

I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for my interweb searches for a few years now, and it’s fine. A lot of the results are still clickbait and garbage, but that’s because companies have spent years investing in gaming all search engines, it’s just Google still dominates search, so it has outsized influence.

One day, the elders will gather round to tell their grandkids how they would search (“What’s a search engine, Grandpa?”) for “best toaster” and get actual results comparing toasters, instead of thousands of pages of SEO-optimized garbage posing as information on toasters. And then the grandkids will go back to hunting mutant cows across the radioactive wastelands.

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