Suprise, SEO ruins search

googling [has] became an Olympic sport of dodging SEO sludge, sponsored links and clickbait… Here’s an easier list to draw up: what Google Search is still good for. For starters, links to any webpage you already know exists.

I agree totally with the former, the latter seems harder and harder to find items I’ve read. Nothing beats clipping it out myself, hence this site.

_{Quote Citation: Joanna Stern, “I Quit Google Search for AI—and I’m Not Going Back Ads and search-optimized junk made a mess of the go-to engine. Now ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude—and even Google’s own AI—do it better.”, March 26, 2025 at 5:30 am ET, https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/google-search-chatgpt-perplexity-gemini-6ac749d9?mod=djem10point}