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Is Google Search Worse? Many Seem to Agree - Search Engine Journal

Last updated Friday, April 22, 2022 04:57 ET , Source: NewsService

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A member of Reddit asked if Google search was becoming worse and thousands of others responded overwhelmingly that Google search was not showing what they were looking for. The SEO community on Twitter picked up the discussion and largely agreed.

Google Search Quality Has Declined, According to Users?

While a few members of Reddit (referred to as Redditors) said that Google search used to be worse and asserted that Google was better now, those that defended Google Search were in the minority.

Seemingly most of the commenters on the Reddit thread claimed that Google search was worse and for a variety of reasons.

Articles With a Poor User Experience

A common theme at Reddit was that Google was surfacing content with a bad user experience.

One Sentence Web Pages

An example of a bad user experience that Google ranks are the listicle pages that force a user to keep clicking to read an article one sentence at a time.

One Redditor commented:

“I’m no SEO optimization expert or anything, but the amount of fucking blog posts I get when looking up stuff is ridiculous. I think the absolute worst offender are those sites that do the “TOP 10 OF X THING” that legitimately interests you, but instead of just listing them in order on the page, they use …slides…”

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