This is a fantastic story about how the search engine tail wags the online content dog.
It's a form of enshittification, but it's a two-sided one that involves google's algorithmic choices and web designers' responses via Campbell's law (when a metric becomes a target, people do stupid shit)
https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization
Carl T. Bergstrom /
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2024-01-08 22:26:40
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