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  • Newtra@pawb.socialEnglish
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    7 months ago

    You’re right. Everything is suspiciously wordy, substance is sparse, and every headline is clickbaity. It’s like they tuned the content specifically for google, not human readers…

    EDIT: Because my comment was also lacking substance: e.g. the Steam Deck review in “30 Best Retro Handhelds Of 2024 [All Reviewed]” says “Yes it’s big, and the battery life… pretty terrible”, then gives no further information about size or battery life, which seems extremely relevant to potential buyers. They wrote 8 paragraphs and shared only 3 shallow facts.

    • roguetrick@kbin.social
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      7 months ago

      That’s the point. This entire thing is complaining about SEO. If your business model is serving ads with SEO and not retaining people with quality content, I’m not going to get too upset about it.

      Google is killing itself with this shit, but it doesn’t really matter. People will move back to Link aggregators and actually working to get the search results they need.

      • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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        7 months ago

        People will move back to Link aggregators

        For link aggregators you mean social media like Lemmy or Reddit, or pages like FMHY which curate its content thoroughly? I found the latter a very good resource, I’d waste too much time finding all the links shared there using any search engine.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 months ago

      TBH I have always found his videos pretty average, good shots but much blah blah blah, Retro Game Corps, and heck even Wulff Den provides better reviews.