That article downplays SEO and mostly argues that Google is responsible, and it still gives Google way too much credit. I mean, it's gonna take a lot more evidence to make me believe they broke the internet by accident, for one. People knew all this crap would happen before Google was even a thing.

[–] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Greed broke it. Mostly Google’s, but you’re right, if it weren’t Google, it would have been someone else.

[–] MudMan@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It already was someone else. I am old enough to remember when all these conversations (and the very accurate warnings about algorithmic filtering and artificial content promotion) being directed at Altavista and Yahoo.

[–] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

And Facebook isn’t innocent, TikTok etc…. You’re entirely right.

We are our own worst enemies.