ExLisper comments on 'Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

search engines are willingly making their results less useful

Search engines are being flooded by shit content gaming their ranks algorithms. I guess open source engine could be so niche that no one would try to game it and it could help. The moment enough people start using it, it would have the same problem as all the other engines.

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[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

They are also purposfully not returning content we are asking for. We know it can work, because it did work. They will put forward results from people that pay them, remove material that people pay them to remove, and otherwise are not giving us what we ask for.

Which is to say nothing of removing answers from the search page itself and only giving it via their ai.

This is not a good faith enshitification, search engines are not blameless victims, and stopping seo websites from gaming their system is their fucking job, that they did for a long time and now don't.

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 5 months ago

I honestly don't know what part of this is enshitification and what part it's actual inability to protect their ranking algorithms. There's so much money in SEO now companies are willing to do crazy things to position their spam. They host entire networks of sites that link to one another, pay people to write spam content and so on. Maybe they could spend more money on detection and keep fighting it, maybe at this point it's impossible.

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