There was this sweet spot where you could both ask it a question in almost natural language, but also use very simple operators to fine tune your results massively.
Then SEO became an offshoot of marketing, and it started to get worse and worse, until 90% of it was sponsored content of some sort
Now, I have no idea what’s going on. It’s like search engines have collectively decided “hey, remember that thing when we helped people find information they were looking for? What if we just didn’t do that anymore?”
There was this sweet spot where you could both ask it a question in almost natural language, but also use very simple operators to fine tune your results massively.
Then SEO became an offshoot of marketing, and it started to get worse and worse, until 90% of it was sponsored content of some sort
Now, I have no idea what’s going on. It’s like search engines have collectively decided “hey, remember that thing when we helped people find information they were looking for? What if we just didn’t do that anymore?”