[_peeley]

When it comes to reaching actual content that isn't just an entry in an API doc somewhere, Google is basically just a vehicle for me to get to StackOverflow/Reddit at this point. For almost every search I've done without appending "reddit", the first page is full of bullshit zero-effort listicles. Like the other day I wanted to see what web frameworks Go has to offer, but when I search "golang web frameworks" I get a million links like "Top 10 Best Go Web Framework 2021!!" that are filled with obviously scraped or auto-generated content.

I get that SEO is kind of a race-to-the-bottom scenario, but I always wonder - how are these random sites in business? I understand that they get a good amount of traffic from said SEO and "advertising" pays good money for that traffic, but do advertisers really not grasp that people spend all of five seconds on these pages before going somewhere else?