Maybe this wouldn't be a problem if Google did better at distinguishing between seo stuffing content farms and actual websites.
Nowadays I'm almost happy if I find at least one sentence of useful information in an entire "article" recommended by Google.
I think the above game example is an example of erosion of both sides: articles have gone to shit, and the amount of care, attention and depth to most games have gone down a lot.
If you run an older internet reference, please add https. The search engines also have an obvious 'recent' bias, but everything we can do to prevent the loss of accessibility of older reference material helps.
true. but then again, in the context of accessibility and compatibility, ssl is a hindrence.
next thing google decides that sites without ads are to be downranked ... fuck this
Probably already happened, they just didn't make a public announcement.
Generative models will asymptotically approach the same statistical distribution of real data.
Eventually, content farms will make actual websites... and nobody will know the difference.
The rise of social media has moved most human generated content onto a few platforms, most of whom don't let Google index them (facebook being the main one).
They probably need to figure out how to pull information out of youtube (which there seem to be some initial efforts at).
However they might already be in trouble there, as TikTok is growing a huge archive of 20 second answers to common queries.