Google is getting worse as it loses its fight against search engine spam::Aggressive SEO tactics are ruining search results on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, a team of researchers in Germany says.
Google has become even more worse because of all the sponsored content.
Is it correct to write more worse?
*Search engine optimization spam. Spamming your bings and duck duck go won’t do anything.
Block or Highlight Search Engine Results - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hohser/
Takes some doing, but anytime you see a link to a garbage website that you don’t care to ever see again, add it to the shit-list. You’ll get better and better results the more you use it. Works on quite a few search engines.
Sadly haven’t found a search engine that beats it
Adding “site:” before a search string can help if you know what you’re looking for. Like site:wikipedia or site:GitHub.com
This kills off AI spam by constricting search results to pages from that site.
But google’s other problem that this doesn’t solve (just like Amazon) is that the first few results are always paid ads, and not actual search results.
Paywall article. Please copy and paste.
I’ve been pretty happy with SearxNG as a stand-in as it collates from multiple search engines.
Except the results from DDG are also a dumpster fire of affiliate spam “listicles,” Pinterest garbage, and unrelated SEO BS. Oh, and Reddit sure has risen in all the results since the APIpocalypse. Almost like big business is all starving each other’s backs.
