Poppycock. SEO was a thing 25 years ago. It's the same now, as it was then, it's merely that Google has vastly reduced efforts to maintain their product.
It's not that SEO won, it's that Google doesn't care.
One way they don't care, is apparent with their ridiculous query aliasing, and spewing pages of random junk before you can even scroll down to actual search results.
Google is a has been, focusing on short term profits. They deserve to go EOL.
> SEO was a thing 25 years ago. It's the same now, as it was then
SEO is the same as it was 25 years ago? Do you remember anything resembling modern content mills in 1999? It always kept on evolving, and there's vastly more money dumped into it today than the 90s could ever dream of. Algorithmically generating content became easier and it got more "believable" to a search engine bot.
Again, putting useless search results at the top doesn't benefit Google in any way, not even the short-term profits. It's the telltale sign of SEO garbage because they have an incentive to game the system, while Google has no incentive to make the system less useful. They likely made some bad choices along the way, but 80% of my issues with Google are outside actors trying to make it useless.
As you said, tech has evolved... but on both sides. And your tact is weird, you seem to claim Google has no reason to improve search?? So, you're agreeing with me, that they aren't trying to keep up?
Well, they should have incentives, it's called user retention. And they are so very complacent, it's hilarious. Here we have, one of the most dramatic shifts in search engine technology in decades, as AI iterates crazy fast, and they're sitting on their past achievements, and hoping user stickiness wins.
Look at how fast Firefox went from the dominant browser to barely existent. Things can shift in the blink of an eye.
Today, more than anything, Google needs to be at the top of its game. Bing is fast becoming far far better than Google Search, and they can pull in crazy user numbers if they wish.
Microsoft has a big bag of cash, and could pay Firefox, Apple, and a dozen other competitors when they deem strike time is a go.
Google, comparatively, seems in a decadent daze of debilitating dormant dreams, damned to derlictness.
Poppycock. SEO was a thing 25 years ago. It's the same now, as it was then, it's merely that Google has vastly reduced efforts to maintain their product.
It's not that SEO won, it's that Google doesn't care.
One way they don't care, is apparent with their ridiculous query aliasing, and spewing pages of random junk before you can even scroll down to actual search results.
Google is a has been, focusing on short term profits. They deserve to go EOL.