I know that the source is more focused on retro gaming as a topic but the topic of this post is Google and its pagerank algorithm which is more appropriate for this community.
We’ve all noticed the enshittification of Google Search over the last few months, but it’s still hard to hear how it is affecting content creators and putting them out of business so we can see 20 AI generated spam pages about whatever our query is.
In their most base form, websites are just online versions of posters on a telephone pole. I ain’t paying to look at someone’s poster.
The ad driven model of the internet is dying. If you aren’t paying for a service, be prepared to do it yourself. See y’all in [email protected]