Google is kind of bad now? (Rather than finding answers it ranks SEO spam)
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Google is the same thing it always was, but their measurements became a target. Thus the usefulness of Google as a yardstick of relevance against the backdrop of info on the Net came to a screeching halt.
This is why I've always thought search and advertising are not two sides of the same coin, even if it may look like it from a service providers point of view. After all, Google is basically advertising your search activity to business's potential entry point for a business relationship.
Fundamentally though, if you're searching, the more valuable service is to make minimal assumptions about what the searcher is looking for, while maybe helping empower them to be better at formulating good queries. I remember digital library catalogs were decent at cutting teeth for that sort of thing.
EDIT:Dropped a few necessary words. Oops.
About the seo spam. It has always been like this.
The difference. Is that today. Google also wants to take over all the content you're interested in, be even more powerful, and steal the business from content creators through the short information at the top.
Basically. Yes.
Google is completely plagiarizing the entire web to improve your business returns, and yes.
Google is the one who penalizes you for creating plagiarized or copied content.
Although today. They. They are taking advantage of that very thing.
The only difference is that they give as real the content of the web pages that pay them the most.
Despite the fact that this content is stolen from another side or from your blog.
For Google it is more true / real / authentic / original, the content that offers more and more benefits to your own company.
So the internet is screwed up today. Even if you have a personal website and do not write on third party sites...
And punctuation. Makes.
this really hard
To read.
Basically.