Re. internet content now being optimised for Google, rather than humans: here’s an article by Mia Sato in The Verge (“The Perfect Webpage”) that shows how an initial simple human-created design has to evolve into a banal and overloaded copy of every other website just to have a chance of survival in Google’s ecosystem. (Ironically, the article’s web design is exceeding irritating.) https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization
Thanks - it's a useful example of why (for instance) recipe web pages rarely just give you the recipe up front, but you have to wade through long explanations and life stories before you get there. In theory AIs like ChatGPT should be able to give us the useful information much more simply - which is why Google and others are buying them up...
Re. internet content now being optimised for Google, rather than humans: here’s an article by Mia Sato in The Verge (“The Perfect Webpage”) that shows how an initial simple human-created design has to evolve into a banal and overloaded copy of every other website just to have a chance of survival in Google’s ecosystem. (Ironically, the article’s web design is exceeding irritating.) https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization
Thank you for adding to the conversation. The link you provide is fascinating albeit annoying as you point out.
Thanks - it's a useful example of why (for instance) recipe web pages rarely just give you the recipe up front, but you have to wade through long explanations and life stories before you get there. In theory AIs like ChatGPT should be able to give us the useful information much more simply - which is why Google and others are buying them up...
Thanks, Helen, for giving me so much information to delve into. I think it will take me more than a week to check it all out.