Ryne Hager on Nostr: This piece by The Verge is very, very good. I once worked for an unnamed outlet that ...
This piece by The Verge is very, very good. I once worked for an unnamed outlet that got acquired and turned into an SEO farm that churned out dogshit — grifting the drive to enshittify both itself and Google's search results as "service journalism" — and it was sad to bear witness to that decline.
Most of my feelings of this shift by publishers are well encapsulated by the author:
https://www.theverge.com/features/23931789/seo-search-engine-optimization-experts-google-resultsPublished at
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