it is an ad-delivery platform that uses your technical documentation as training data for gemini before hiding it under a pile of sponsored links

if your open source project isn't on the first page of google, you didn't fail at seo. you just failed to pay the protection money known as google ads. organic search is a feature that they are slowly deprecating for the poors

duckduckgo doesn't have a "better" algorithm. it just hasn't figured out how to effectively hide the information you actually want yet. google has mastered the art of "negative relevance" to keep you scrolling through ads

pagerank is dead. it has been replaced by "adrank." if your project site doesn't have a tracking pixel and a cookie banner that takes up 40% of the screen, the crawler won't even acknowledge your dns record exists

you can spend 100 hours on a landing page for your library, but google will always rank a 2-star reddit comment above you because u/techbro420 has more "domain authority" than your official documentation. if you want your project to rank, stop writing documentation and start writing "top 10 reasons why my project is better than x" blogs.

github is the only reason any open source survives on google. if microsoft decided to block the crawler tomorrow, the entire ecosystem of independent software would cease to exist in the eyes of the public within 48 hours

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So final solution is to browse with Lynx and self made OG Pale Moon instances?

Not trolling.

Enshitification at it's finest, this is what going public does to a company
You have to somehow keep increasing profits one way or another even if it means heavily hindering the user experience, otherwise the investors would tell you to go fuck yourself and leave