Dear @Google , As long as you continue using SGE and no-click search results, you are normalizing content theft and SEO manipulation. Furthermore, as long as you load search results with ads and sponsored results, you imply that the primary purpose of search is sales. This leads to sites stuffed with affiliate products and ads. If you’re as tired of that as you claim, try following your own advice to “create the web you want to see.” To wit: 1. Stop putting SGE at the top of results. Put it on a tab, or move it further down the page. (After 10 blue links is a good spot: people will be glad to see it then.) This will stop the screams of content theft while making the info still available to lazy users who, in time, will train themselves where to look for it. 2. Get rid of featured snippets, PAA and other excerpts that encourage people to target their content for those features at the expense of helpfulness. See above for why. 3. Stop shoving shopping results down our throats. Every time that you get it wrong, you blur the distinction between commercial and informational search intent. This leads to millions of pages loaded with affiliate links and products for sale because “if Google’s doing it, why shouldn’t we?” TL;DR Google: you created this mess. Stop digging in your heels defending it. Look back to where you started going wrong* and redo your work from there. *Might I suggest the day you removed “don’t be evil” as your motto? cc: @searchliaison
@thatkatieberry @Google They did remove the motto in 2018 i think it was but you are right about the rest.
@thatkatieberry @Google Nailed it. Excellent post! 👏 It’s getting harder to defend Google with each passing day.
@thatkatieberry @Google New Coke has been the premiere B School textbooks case study of how to totally F up trust in an otherwise strong solid brand. I think there’s New Coke has a challenger now.
@thatkatieberry @Google Great post. The question here is: will they ever learn their own hypocrisy? Looking at the way these fools tweet, I don't think they ever will: @JohnMu @searchliaison
@thatkatieberry @Google I keep getting features snippets pushed hard and end up going to ChatGPT or Gemini to ask specific questions now. SERP quality is horrendous in so many categories and only getting worse. I like the SGE after 10 blue links! "If you haven't found what you look for, SGE"
@thatkatieberry @Google Google, at the end of the day .. don’t be evil..
@thatkatieberry @Google On point! Google created this mess then tucked their tails. Honestly, it’s all a move towards sure SGE (Content theft!)
@thatkatieberry @Google pray for us
@thatkatieberry @Google Yes, why is the new user experience with Google "scroll down"? The real search results are down around #8 on the 1st page.
@thatkatieberry @Google You can still have plain 10 blue links with Google results if you want to, startpage with ublock works fine! :) eu.startpage.com/sp/search?quer…
@thatkatieberry @AnneMossYeys @Google Wish I could like this multiple times … Excellent piece.
@thatkatieberry @Google Sundar Pichai is destroying Google
@thatkatieberry @natejhake @Google As a user, yes! But if I ran Google (I don’t), I’d do exactly what they do. Every writer, producer, creator, and commerce site gives them everything — for free. Until we stop giving them (and social apps) our work product, this won’t end.
@thatkatieberry @Google Suppose they are lying through their teeth when Google says it takes months to recover from HCU they are just hoping we keep using their SERPS.
