<story><title>As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful, what happens to SEO?</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/features/23931789/seo-search-engine-optimization-experts-google-results</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phendrenad2</author><text>&amp;quot;The internet&amp;quot; doesn&amp;#x27;t really exist, now, now does it? 99% of users are living in an AOL-style world, where they live within walled gardens. Why leave twitter&amp;#x2F;facebook&amp;#x2F;instagram&amp;#x2F;youtube&amp;#x2F;tiktok&amp;#x2F;reddit? There&amp;#x27;s nothing out there but a wasteland of crumbling has-been sites. Sometimes you&amp;#x27;ll find yourself on a blog or news article, but you just click&amp;#x2F;tap the back button to go back to the walled garden. Nobody is subscribing to your RSS feed. And what really did this is mobile devices. And it isn&amp;#x27;t necessarily a bad thing, although I do miss the old vbulletin discussion days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asdfman123</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s lots of good content out there, but the problem is finding it. A Google replacement wouldn&amp;#x27;t be any better, because everyone&amp;#x27;s attention would be directed into optimizing new replacement site.&lt;p&gt;It frustrates me when people say &amp;quot;Google should search reddit by default.&amp;quot; The reason reddit is still halfway decent is there isn&amp;#x27;t as much money in gaming it, but there would be if the entire world was sent to it.</text></comment>
<story><title>As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful, what happens to SEO?</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/features/23931789/seo-search-engine-optimization-experts-google-results</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phendrenad2</author><text>&amp;quot;The internet&amp;quot; doesn&amp;#x27;t really exist, now, now does it? 99% of users are living in an AOL-style world, where they live within walled gardens. Why leave twitter&amp;#x2F;facebook&amp;#x2F;instagram&amp;#x2F;youtube&amp;#x2F;tiktok&amp;#x2F;reddit? There&amp;#x27;s nothing out there but a wasteland of crumbling has-been sites. Sometimes you&amp;#x27;ll find yourself on a blog or news article, but you just click&amp;#x2F;tap the back button to go back to the walled garden. Nobody is subscribing to your RSS feed. And what really did this is mobile devices. And it isn&amp;#x27;t necessarily a bad thing, although I do miss the old vbulletin discussion days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superkuh</author><text>Your perception is how the vast majority of people see the web. But you&amp;#x27;re completely wrong about &amp;quot;nothing out there&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Nobody is subscribing to your RSS feed.&amp;quot; Just because you&amp;#x27;re trapped in the gardens doesn&amp;#x27;t mean there aren&amp;#x27;t communities of people who never went in them in the first place.&lt;p&gt;Yes, there&amp;#x27;s a thick layer of for-profit walled garden crap on top but the actual web of websites (not applications) is still out there and it&amp;#x27;s bigger than ever despite being proportionally much smaller compared to the smartphone&amp;#x2F;megacorp users.</text></comment>