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Web search has been declining for ten years because of content written to chase rankings and ad money.
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- Hadley Wickham Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio)
Overall it feels like search has been steadily declining for the last 10 years, thanks to content creators who chase high rankings with low quality writing in order to make money from advertising.
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