On: I Miss the Old Internet

[anon9001]

Thanks. Almost all of that makes good sense, and it's pretty clear that optimization kept working so they just kept doing it. I wonder how much farther it will go.

You lost me here though:

> Hundreds of pages a day that were of absolutely no use to anyone but to Google

Do you mean like spam/clickbait blog posts on their own domain? I'm having trouble connecting "producing garbage content" to "increased ranking from google".

[lethologica → anon9001]

Think along the lines of those recipe pages that have 2000 words of backstory that no one cares about but is considered good SEO practice in Googles eyes.

[anon9001 → lethologica]

Fascinating. I didn't know that was so significant to Google. That does explain a lot of what we see in the search results though.