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It's not just those categories that are producing low quality SERPs, almost any niche you can imagine is being assaulted using weaponized SEO because content marketing has become the competitive advantage of many organisations and part of the default toolkit of any site team.

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Is it weaponized SEO, though? Because I have been adding "wikipedia" recently to many of my searches. Google has penalized Wikipedia in search results significantly (at least for me). I'm not sure what's the logic behind especially that 1. Wikipedia is trustworthy and ad-free and 2. I click mostly Wikipedia, so from a MLearning perspective I should be getting more wikipedia results.

Honestly, I think a good search engine would hardcode the first two results to be the official website for "thing" and the wikipedia page for "thing" if they exist. Then it can list out the organic results. Just that change would make search 10X better than it currently is.

Consider skipping a step and querying wikipedia directly. Bookmark https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%s&title=Special... in your browser and giving it the shortcut w (or whatever you think makes sense)

I've been using a Firefox search keyword for Google+Wikipedia and it works great.

Same, I tend to trust wikipedia and it hasn't been showing up nearly as much

Just use ddg. By nowadays its just better.

I prefer the results it provides over googles these days. Where it falls short is on maps.

I found out today that one of my reddit comments (along with many random others) had been scrapped out and automatically put back together (together with those many random other that is) on a blogspot page. I stumbled upon that page today as I was googling for a very specific topic, it went something like this: that SERP looks really interesting, nice! => this page looks like spam => this page is spam => damn, that bunch of text is really mine.

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