[mmmpetrichor]

Even to me, as a tech person, the level of SEO allowed to infiltrate google results seems way out of proportion to what they should allow. There are several obvious URLs that always come up with "top 10 lists" that seem wholly designed for SEO referral links for any type of recommendation you might be looking for. There's a reason everyone just ignores google and adds "reddit.com" to certain searches now to get real results.

[jmye]

Google isn’t, to all outward appearances, trying to do search well, though. I mean, you can want them to deal with SEO better/differently, but it’s clear the goal is to drive advertising and to do whatever it can to serve you more ads. We need more neeva/Kagi search tools, if we want companies incented to get away from blogspam/SEO.