And why you shouldn’t trust product reviews from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google.
  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    761·
    2 years ago

    Perhaps it’s becoming clear that search needs to become a common cooperatively managed infrastructure similar to Wikipedia. That this is in the best interest of everyone but advertisers and spammers.

    • 3laws@lemmy.worldEnglish
      281·
      2 years ago

      Honestly, right here, that’s the beauty upside of the fediverse, we are slightly bigger than the general internet bubble and that’s enough to watch content not bound by it, Iyk what I mean.

        • anytimesoon@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          Was bought out by dotdash a few years ago. Been on a steady decline ever since. The old content is still there, so it still works as a reference, but the new stuff is not of the same quality

        • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          2 years ago

          It doesn’t seem like anything happened with them, they’re just published by a company that also spams seemingly hollow search results for reviews. Reviews it seems like they may not have meaningfully conducted. But serious eats isn’t actually implicated in anything other than being published by them as best I can tell. Dotdash Meredith also seems to publish a bunch of other food/recipe sites too.

    • solomon42069@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Be cool if we had a browser extension that automatically told Google to filter out results from these sites specifically

  • SpeedLimit55@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    Nothing in that article is a surprise, its almost as bad just looking up general info lately. I have been doing some searching in both google and yandex and often get better results in yandex.

    • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I was looking forward to seeing more reviews from the company, then saw they only have reviews of air purifiers, humidifiers or dehumidifiers, and a few sensors. That’s pretty niche, and even if they maybe should be used more they probably need to branch out into more categories to get more attention. But it looks very thorough and useful if you need those items.

  • _NoName_@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago
    • Ban commercial Ads from the web.
    • Illegalize selling of user data without consent, at minimum.

    The majority of online enshittification stems from profit motivation. Removing the incentive will fundamentally change how the internet is used and will likely change it for the better.