There's no denying that Google is the
number one search engine and is one of the best ways to find things
on the internet, but as of late, I have noticed a decline in the
quality of search results provided. Often I will do a search on a new
topic hoping to find a good site with clear and helpful information
only to find the top results give the opposite experience.
I will click on a top recommended site
and immediately be bombarded with a pop up to sign up for a
newsletter. This is one of my pet peeves and the kind of thing that
will make me click the “Back” button immediately to find a better
site that is not going to try to spam me with pop ups.
If you manage to get through the pop
ups, you may get to the site hoping it will have the information you
are looking for only to find out it is a slide show that you have to
click through 10 pages when all the information could have easily
been listed in the first page.
No one likes these kinds of things so
why is Google putting them at the top of their search results? I
think some better attention needs to be put into the curating of
these results. Sure the websites might be nice looking, but if it is
spammy and does not provide the information the visitor is looking
for, it is not a helpful result.
I know much effort goes into reviewing
search engine results to make sure they are the best possible, but as
of right now, somehow sites that are not very good are being given
top placement in the results. Has anyone else noticed this trend?
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