In February 2024, we published an article warning readers not to trust product recommendations from well-known newspapers and magazines ranking at the top of Google search results.
I wasn’t expecting so many people to care (even though I secretly hoped they would), but we’re still getting emails and messages about it ten weeks later.
Dotdash Meredith allegedly developed an SEO content strategy called “swarming” to out-publish independent sites
Why indie publishers are being buried in search results by content published on multiple sites belonging to the same group
Within a few days of publishing the David VS Digital Goliaths exposé, I received an anonymous tip from a former Dotdash Meredith employee, who informed me of an SEO content strategy they implement called “keyword swarming.”
“Swarming is about drowning out a competitor,” said the person who reached out. The objective is to “swarm a smaller site’s foothold on one or two articles by essentially publishing 10 articles [on the topic] and beefing up [Dotdash Meredith sites’] authority.”
Whatever the reason, Google’s algorithm believes our website isn’t good enough and that visitors will have a bad experience if they land on it.https://housefresh.com/how-google-decimated-housefresh/
As a result, since October 2023, we’ve gone from welcoming 4,000 people from Google Search each day to just receiving 200. And of those 200, most are adding “HouseFresh” to their searches to find us specifically.
Modern internet and how it changed in last 5-10 years kinda sucks, NGL. This is part of the same issue that I've ranted about with Amazon search also being useless.
None of these private equity owned "media companies" like Buzzfeed give af about reviewing things honestly they just want to spam SEO and get people on their website to spam them with shitty advertisement. I hate it.
Yes, it sucks. I used to pride myself on being able to finagle search terms to find what I needed relatively quickly. It is just about impossible to do that now. For almost any topic. The best things to do is either append "reddit" to the end of the search (yuck) or just directly ask people on forums or discord servers with relevant experts.
Discovery without someone directly sending you something is almost non-existent now. You just have to hope someone you interact with mentions something and then you go look up that thing directly.
Discovery without someone directly sending you something is almost non-existent now. You just have to hope someone you interact with mentions something and then you go look up that thing directly.
It's only gonna get worse as they keep shoving summarized AI nonsense in front of you. We won't even be offered a link to the source to be able to sus it out ourselves.
I can't imagine searching for recommendations on a home device and have a garbage summary from AI. I'm not gonna trust any of that shit because I won't believe anyone reviewed it.
I can't imagine searching for recommendations on a home device and have a garbage summary from AI. I'm not gonna trust any of that shit because I won't believe anyone reviewed it.
By Kibner Go To PostThe best things to do is either append "reddit" to the end of the search (yuck) or just directly ask people on forums or discord servers with relevant experts.Thought I read it on here but it might have been somewhere else, but this isn’t even viable anymore as they’ve caught onto it
You can all thank Prabhakar Raghavan for this. It's his work.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Yea you have to update your UX to support mouse and keyboard but building an iPad App as a desktop app for an M laptop is essentially a configuration change and a click. Takes seconds if you don't have to tweak the UX/UI.
Biggest day in iPads since they were announced apparently. They're iPads again, they're even more overkill in terms of SoC, they still run iPadOS
By reilo Go To PostYea you have to update your UX to support mouse and keyboard but building an iPad App as a desktop app for an M laptop is essentially a configuration change and a click. Takes seconds if you don't have to tweak the UX/UI.ProCreate already has some ok mouse and keyboard support from what I remember, from when the iPads added first class mouse support. I guess they'd want to make it more sensible, but yeah I can imagine it being quicker than you'd expect.
i don't see how the thinness of the new ipad should be appealing to me. this thing is going to bend so quickly.
Is there an actual reason the Pencil Pro isn't supported on older iPad Pros or is Apple just trying to make people upgrade?
The front camera going landscape might be the best thing about this upgrade.
The front camera going landscape might be the best thing about this upgrade.
By DiPro Go To Posti don't see how the thinness of the new ipad should be appealing to me. this thing is going to bend so quickly.It's a whole 1.3mm thinner than the previous gen m8. That is groundbreaking stuff.
By DiPro Go To Posti don't see how the thinness of the new ipad should be appealing to me. this thing is going to bend so quickly.It's not for you
By Pedja Go To PostIs there an actual reason the Pencil Pro isn't supported on older iPad Pros or is Apple just trying to make people upgrade?MKBHD said something about the magnet orientation
The front camera going landscape might be the best thing about this upgrade.
It's a whole 1.3mm thinner than the previous gen m8. That is groundbreaking stuff.
We got the new iPad Pro for my partner since her old one doesn't hold a battery charge very well after constant usage over ~3 years or so. Went with the base specs but got that keyboard and new pencil for it. She draws on it occasionally and gets a ton of usage out of the keyboard, both at home and at work (before her recent health issues). She's excited for it. Basically her early birthday gift.
Neat section about the tandem oled screen in the new iPad. Since Apple was able to find a way to address it's biggest current weakness, I'm sure other vendors will have their own methods soon, too. Should lead to brighter oled displays, lower power consumption, longer panel lifetime, and lower risk of burn-in.
Updated to the newest general release version of TrueNAS and it does the two biggest things I’ve been waiting on: full Intel ARC GPU support (can transcode 5 streams now without hitting the CPU) and ZFS ARC (a file caching system) can now use more than half the system memory. So now my 128GB of ram will see more usage.
By JesalR Go To PostVMWare made Fusion Pro and Workstation Pro free for personal use.Broadcom must have really been feeling the pressure to do this so quickly.
they should make a filter that just ads "reddit" to the end because it's the only thing that makes you get real answers that aren't AI generated slob (for now)
By DiPro Go To Postthey should make a filter that just ads "reddit" to the end because it's the only thing that makes you get real answers that aren't AI generated slob (for now)There are already AI bots posting AI generated content on reddit to farm karma to turn those accounts into for sale / spam accounts.
By reilo Go To PostThe shittification of the web is sad to watchIt really is :(
Microsoft isn’t launching a new version of Windows next week, but what it’s about to unveil could be just as significant. After nearly four years of falling behind Apple’s MacBooks, sources inside Microsoft tell me that the company is confident it can finally beat Apple’s own chips that power the MacBook Air.Excuse me, falling behind just four years? lol wow
Finally decided to renew the license on my Fortigate. I was going to get the bundle that had all the filtering, spam, and malware detection, but my partner saw the prices and said that there was a better use for my time and money than toys so I got the barebones license that comes with firmware upgrades instead. :(
Now I am starting to look at less enterprisey options that don't require purchasing licenses to run but should still allow me to learn many things about enterprise networking, like Microtik. Particularly, I am looking at this $300 router from them: https://mikrotik.com/product/rb5009upr_s_in
It appears to be powerful enough to have an ipsec vpn connection running at gigabit speeds, which is basically the max we need it for (Sunshine game streaming or 4k video streaming whille at either of our parents' homes). I am not sure what RouterOS is like and what its web filtering options are like. I want to use it to block ads at a network level instead of at the device level. Yes, I know about PiHole.
Now I am starting to look at less enterprisey options that don't require purchasing licenses to run but should still allow me to learn many things about enterprise networking, like Microtik. Particularly, I am looking at this $300 router from them: https://mikrotik.com/product/rb5009upr_s_in
It appears to be powerful enough to have an ipsec vpn connection running at gigabit speeds, which is basically the max we need it for (Sunshine game streaming or 4k video streaming whille at either of our parents' homes). I am not sure what RouterOS is like and what its web filtering options are like. I want to use it to block ads at a network level instead of at the device level. Yes, I know about PiHole.
By RAThasReturned Go To PostUnbelievable.It's a combination of NIC (network interface controller) and gigabit, which is fine, reasonable, and makes sense for their productions in isolation. But it is also a Chinese company so I don't know if they chose and have kept that name despite the connotations outside their country due to ignorance or willful malevolance (not the right word but is the one that comes to mind).
By reilo Go To PostExcuse me, falling behind just four years? lol wowIt feels like you don't believe this is the year Microsoft finally cracks Windows on ARM Reilo
Why won't you believe?
