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prokopetz Β· 11 months
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Like, I'm not saying that this is a good thing, but it's kind of bleakly entertaining how over the course of my life my skill set as an online researcher has gone from being:
Hugely valuable in the late 1990s and early 2000s because the discoverability of information in public-facing databases was fucking terrible and nobody knew how to organise anything; to
Effectively useless throughout the 2010s because search engines enormously and rapidly improved and computer literacy was at an all-time high; and
Back to being hugely valuable once again because SEO bullshit and the proliferation of AI-generated content have degraded online discoverability back to pre-2000 levels and computer literacy is in accelerating decline due to mobile devices deliberately obfuscating basic functionality so that app vendors can sell it back to you with embedded advertising.
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Google reneged on the monopolistic bargain
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A funny thing happened on the way to the enshittocene: Google – which astonished the world when it reinvented search, blowing Altavista and Yahoo out of the water with a search tool that seemed magic – suddenly turned into a pile of shit.
Google's search results are terrible. The top of the page is dominated by spam, scams, and ads. A surprising number of those ads are scams. Sometimes, these are high-stakes scams played out by well-resourced adversaries who stand to make a fortune by tricking Google:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/phone-numbers-airlines-listed-google-directed-scammers-rcna94766
But often these scams are perpetrated by petty grifters who are making a couple bucks at this. These aren't hyper-resourced, sophisticated attackers. They're the SEO equivalent of script kiddies, and they're running circles around Google:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/passive-income/#swiss-cheese-security
Google search is empirically worsening. The SEO industry spends every hour that god sends trying to figure out how to sleaze their way to the top of the search results, and even if Google defeats 99% of these attempts, the 1% that squeak through end up dominating the results page for any consequential query:
https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf
Google insists that this isn't true, and if it is true, it's not their fault because the bad guys out there are so numerous, dedicated and inventive that Google can't help but be overwhelmed by them:
https://searchengineland.com/is-google-search-getting-worse-389658
It wasn't supposed to be this way. Google has long maintained that its scale is the only thing that keeps us safe from the scammers and spammers who would otherwise overwhelm any lesser-resourced defender. That's why it was so imperative that they pursue such aggressive growth, buying up hundreds of companies and integrating their products with search so that every mobile device, every ad, every video, every website, had one of Google's tendrils in it.
This is the argument that Google's defenders have put forward in their messaging on the long-overdue antitrust case against Google, where we learned that Google is spending $26b/year to make sure you never try another search engine:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-27/google-paid-26-3-billion-to-be-default-search-engine-in-2021
Google, we were told, had achieved such intense scale that the normal laws of commercial and technological physics no longer applied. Take security: it's an iron law that "there is no security in obscurity." A system that is only secure when its adversaries don't understand how it works is not a secure system. As Bruce Schneier says, "anyone can design a security system that they themselves can't break. That doesn't mean it works – just that it works for people stupider than them."
And yet, Google operates one of the world's most consequential security system – The Algorithm (TM) – in total secrecy. We're not allowed to know how Google's ranking system works, what its criteria are, or even when it changes: "If we told you that, the spammers would win."
Well, they kept it a secret, and the spammers won anyway.
A viral post by Housefresh – who review air purifiers – describes how Google's algorithmic failures, which send the worst sites to the top of the heap, have made it impossible for high-quality review sites to compete:
https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/
You've doubtless encountered these bad review sites. Search for "Best ______ 2024" and the results are a series of near-identical lists, strewn with Amazon affiliate links. Google has endlessly tinkered with its guidelines and algorithmic weights for review sites, and none of it has made a difference. For example, when Google instituted a policy that reviewers should "discuss the benefits and drawbacks of something, based on your own original research," sites that had previously regurgitated the same lists of the same top ten Amazon bestsellers "peppered their pages with references to a β€˜rigorous testing process,’ their β€˜lab team,’ subject matter experts β€˜they collaborated with,’ and complicated methodologies that seem impressive at a cursory look."
But these grandiose claims – like the 67 air purifiers supposedly tested in Better Homes and Gardens's Des Moines lab – result in zero in-depth reviews and no published data. Moreover, these claims to rigorous testing materialized within a few days of Google changing its search ranking and said that high rankings would be reserved for sites that did testing.
Most damning of all is how the Better Homes and Gardens top air purifiers perform in comparison to the – extensively documented – tests performed by Housefresh: "plagued by high-priced and underperforming units, Amazon bestsellers with dubious origins (that also underperform), and even subpar devices from companies that market their products with phrases like β€˜the Tesla of air purifiers.’"
One of the top ranked items on BH&G comes from Molekule, a company that filed for bankruptcy after being sued for false advertising. The model BH&G chose was ranked "the worst air purifier tested" by Wirecutter and "not living up to the hype" by Consumer Reports. Either BH&G's rigorous testing process is a fiction that they infused their site with in response to a Google policy change, or BH&G absolutely sucks at rigorous testing.
BH&G's competitors commit the same sins – literally, the exact same sins. Real Simple's reviews list the same photographer and the photos seem to have been taken in the same place. They also list the same person as their "expert." Real Simple has the same corporate parent as BH&G: Dotdash Meredith. As Housefresh shows, there's a lot of Dotdash Meredith review photos that seem to have been taken in the same place, by the same person.
But the competitors of these magazines are no better. Buzzfeed lists 22 air purifiers, including that crapgadget from Molekule. Their "methodology" is to include screenshots of Amazon reviews.
A lot of the top ranked sites for air purifiers are once-great magazines that have been bought and enshittified by private equity giants, like Popular Science, which began as a magazine in 1872 and became a shambling zombie in 2023, after its PE owners North Equity LLC decided its googlejuice was worth more than its integrity and turned it into a metastatic chumbox of shitty affiliate-link SEO-bait. As Housefresh points out, the marketing team that runs PopSci makes a lot of hay out of the 150 years of trust that went into the magazine, but the actual reviews are thin anaecdotes, unbacked by even the pretense of empiricism (oh, and they loooove Molekule).
Some of the biggest, most powerful, most trusted publications in the world have a side-hustle in quietly producing SEO-friendly "10 Best ___________ of 2024" lists: Rolling Stone, Forbes, US News and Report, CNN, New York Magazine, CNN, CNET, Tom's Guide, and more.
Google literally has one job: to detect this kind of thing and crush it. The deal we made with Google was, "You monopolize search and use your monopoly rents to ensure that we never, ever try another search engine. In return, you will somehow distinguish between low-effort, useless nonsense and good information. You promised us that if you got to be the unelected, permanent overlord of all information access, you would 'organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.'"
They broke the deal.
Companies like CNET used to do real, rigorous product reviews. As Housefresh points out, CNET once bought an entire smart home and used it to test products. Then Red Ventures bought CNET and bet that they could sell the house, switch to vibes-based reviewing, and that Google wouldn't even notice. They were right.
https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/welcome-to-the-cnet-smart-home/
Google downranks sites that spend money and time on reviews like Housefresh and GearLab, and crams botshittened content mills like BH&G into our eyeballs instead.
In 1558, Thomas Gresham coined (ahem) Gresham's Law: "Bad money drives out good." When counterfeit money circulates in the economy, anyone who gets a dodgy coin spends it as quickly as they can, because the longer you hold it, the greater the likelihood that someone will detect the fraud and the coin will become worthless. Run this system long enough and all the money in circulation is funny money.
An internet run by Google has its own Gresham's Law: bad sites drive out good. It's not just that BH&G can "test" products at a fraction of the cost of Housefresh – through the simple expedient of doing inadequate tests or no tests at all – so they can put a lot more content up that Housefresh. But that alone wouldn't let them drive Housefresh off the front page of Google's search results. For that, BH&G has to mobilize some of their savings from the no test/bad test lab to do real rigorous science: science in defeating Google's security-through-obscurity system, which lets them command the front page despite publishing worse-than-useless nonsense.
Google has lost the spam wars. In response to the plague of botshit clogging Google search results, the company has invested in…making more botshit:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked
Last year, Google did a $70b stock buyback. They also laid off 12,000 staffers (whose salaries could have been funded for 27 years by that stock buyback). They just laid off thousands more employees.
That wasn't the deal. The deal was that Google would get a monopoly, and they would spend their monopoly rents to be so good that you could just click "I'm feeling lucky" and be teleported to the very best response to your query. A company that can't figure out the difference between a scam like Better Homes and Gardens and a rigorous review site like Housefresh should be pouring every spare dime it brings in into fixing this problem. Not buying default search status on every platform so that we never try another search engine: they should be fixing their shit.
When Google admits that it's losing the war to these kack-handed spam-farmers, that's frustrating. When they light $26b/year on fire making sure you don't ever get to try anything else, that's very frustrating. When they vaporize seventy billion dollars on financial engineering and shoot one in ten engineers, that's outrageous.
Google's scale has transcended the laws of business physics: they can sell an ever-degrading product and command an ever-greater share of our economy, even as their incompetence dooms any decent, honest venture to obscurity while providing fertile ground – and endless temptation – for scammers.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task
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facts-i-just-made-up Β· 24 days
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internet opinion on above website
If I search for how to do something, I only find ads for unrelated crap or AI generated nonsense, or occasionally a question posted identical to mine that nobody has ever answered. If I want info on something, I can look for it in quotes and get an ad for something without any words even related to what I was after. The supreme reigning search engine is almost as bad as tumblr's "nothing on this blog" when I just posted and tagged it with the search term earlier that day. The data wars are over. The advertisers won.
Oh wait, this is the FAKE facts blog. Uh... Google's is awesome!
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~Sweet Dreams~
Pairing: Bf Binnie x !female reader
warnings: somnophilia (consensual), unproducted sex, porn with very little plot
synopsis: binnie can't resist you when he comes home late and you're already sleeping. You just look too good...
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author's note: no one asked for this. this is purely self indulgent. thank you all for humoring me.
Changbin had just stepped out of the shower. His hair was messy, covering his eyes, curls and waves everywhere. He lazily attempted to fix it, while the towel around his waist began to loosen. His body aches from work. These late nights were starting to catch up with him. He made his way to the bed where you were already sleeping. You had tried in earnest to wait up for him. Drinking an extra cup of coffee and playing loud music to fight the tired feeling. But there you slept, the bed sheets halfway up your body. A tank top and shorts the only thing covering you.
Your mouth was open and snores were steadily leaving your mouth. Your hair was meshed around the pillow. It wasn't pretty like in the movies. If you could see yourself right now you'd be so embarrassed but Binnie just stared in amazement. To him, you looked like a goddamn supermodel. The curves of your body were gliding and cascading perfectly on the bed. He could feel himself growing harder under the towel. Swelling at the sight of you.
You both had talked about the possibility. Binnie slipping inside you one night. It made you hot, the thought of it. Peacefully resting while he thrusts into. Rutting into you without any kind of control.
Binnie slowly climbed on top of you. Carefully straddling you, his thick thighs on either side of you. Your body stirred slightly. Your mouth closed and your brows furrowed from the movement. Binnie moved the hair from your face then caressed your cheek. He smiled at the sight of you. You looked so beautiful like this. Like an angel.
He travelled his hand from your cheek down your neck to your beasts. Your chest lifted at the slight touch. Your nipples already hard. Binnie's other hand gripping his cock, longingly stroking. Two fingers pinch your nipples and tug lightly. Your breath hitches and your eyes flutter for a moment but you continue to sleep. Binnie continues to rub and pull on your nipples, his other hand picking up speed, angry beads of precum surfacing. He pulled down your shorts to reveal a thin string of arousal already forming for him.
"good girl..." He whispered. He was incredibly hard now. Painfully erect. He lifted your legs carefully. He watched your face methodically, cautious to stop at any sign of discomfort. He wanted this to be good for you. You were his angel, his bunny.
He slid in slowly at first. Unbearably slow. He groaned at the pace. God how he loved the feeling of you covering him completely. To watch his cock disappear inside of your tight cunt. You were made for him. He bucked his hips into you and bottomed out, pausing for a moment. You kept your eyes closed, seemingly unphased. Binnie slid back out then in again, this time a little more quickly. You swallowed him up perfectly. Your cunt squeezing and pulsating around his length.
"bunny? Are you awake..?" Binnie whispered between thrusts. Grunting rhythmically on top of you. You continued sleeping. Your head turned to the side, your eyebrows furrowing again. He wondered for a moment if you were dreaming about him. About his cock thrusting and slamming inside of you. The bed shaking and the mattress bouncing beneath the two of you.
Binnie was close now. So fucking close. He scanned the bedroom for somewhere to finish. An old T-shirt? A sock? Nothing was in reach. Just then something grabbed his wrist. It was your hand.
"Come inside of me, binnie baby, please." Your eyes were glossy. Your mouth open and head bouncing to the feeling of his thrusts. He was a wreck now. He was a mess. Absolutely no strength left. He let everything go when you asked him. When you were so sweet and polite asking for him to fill you, to make you his, to claim you.
"I'm yours, Daddy. I'm yours" you chanted like a prayer as he emptied inside of you. You threw your head back and closed your eyes to feel every drop of it. Your legs begin to shake and Binnie holds them tighter. You left your body go limp. He drops down next to you. One arm still slung across your chest.
"I love you so much." He confesses through batted breath. His face was turned towards yours. Both of you fuxked out with a big, dumb smile plastered on both of your faces. This was not going to be the last time you fell asleep waiting for Changbin to come home.
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prokopetz Β· 2 months
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Advisory: that recipe for bacon-wrapped whatever that you found on the Internet is a trap. If it's not AI-generated, nine times out of ten somebody took an existing recipe for prosciutto-wrapped whatever and search-and-replaced the word "prosciutto" with "bacon" because the word "bacon" gets better SEO scores. Store-bought bacon is typically too thickly sliced to substitute for prosciutto in most contexts, and what you're going to end up with if you try that recipe is a soggy whatever covered in half-raw bacon.
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