There have been quite a lot of complaints concerning the high quality of Google search outcomes – the reality is, there are at all times complaints. Assuming you consider the outcomes are certainly getting worse (which not everybody would agree with), is Google accountable, or is it the fault of the online generally accountable?
Lots of this stems from the Freakonomics podcast present named Is Google Getting Worse? the place they requested Marissa Mayer, the twentieth Google worker, and the previous CEO of Yahoo, if it’s the internet or Google. She mentioned it’s the internet and Google is simply presenting what is on the internet.
We lined this at Search Engine Land a while in the past, Marissa mentioned:
While you see the standard of your search outcomes go down, it is pure accountable Google and be like, Why are they worse? To me, the extra fascinating and complicated thought is if you happen to say, Wait, however Google’s only a window onto the online. The actual query is, why is the online getting worse?
So Greg Sterling requested his followers, I retweeted it, “Is Google getting worse or is the online itself declining in high quality?” It confirmed that SEOs are actually combined in blaming Google or the online.
Right here is that ballot:
Is Google getting worse or is the online itself declining in high quality?
— Greg Sterling 🇺🇦 (@gsterling) December 5, 2022
When you ask Google, Google will say they’re method higher than they had been and that the query might be flawed. Google wouldn’t say it can not enhance, Google is the primary to say there are at all times methods to enhance. However evaluating Google in the present day to 10 years in the past, I believe Google would say it’s higher, not worse.
That being mentioned, have a pay attention to the podcast.
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