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minus-squaredantheclamman@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·9 months agoIf there were multiple sources of traffic, the pressure to optimize to one source would be lower, and the disruption caused by algorithm changes would be muted. Which would mean more interesting content less driven by a narrow set of metrics
minus-squareconciselyverbose@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoExcept nothing else actually does meaningfully better than Google, even with Google being the only thing sites care about optimizing for. It’s incredibly difficult to do a useful search if sites are hostile and doing everything possible to muddy the results.
If there were multiple sources of traffic, the pressure to optimize to one source would be lower, and the disruption caused by algorithm changes would be muted. Which would mean more interesting content less driven by a narrow set of metrics
Except nothing else actually does meaningfully better than Google, even with Google being the only thing sites care about optimizing for.
It’s incredibly difficult to do a useful search if sites are hostile and doing everything possible to muddy the results.