Explores how companies can effectively market to developers on Reddit, discussing pitfalls, advertising strategies, and platform culture.
EU antitrust complaint filed against Google's AI Overviews, alleging misuse of publisher content and harm to traffic and revenue.
A critique of AI-powered search tools like Arc Search, arguing they hide traditional search engines, raise trust issues, and harm web content creators.
A comparison of search result quality across Google, Bing, and alternative engines, testing how well they handle generic queries.
An analysis of how Google's search engine, by making information retrieval too easy, has eroded online community engagement and human connection.
A developer recounts how a single misconfigured canonical HTML tag caused their site to vanish from most search engine indexes and the long road to recovery.
The article critiques modern search engines' reliance on structured metadata over advanced AI for tasks like indexing and content understanding.
A critique of DuckDuckGo's privacy and technical flaws, arguing for a new, truly open-source search engine with its own crawler.
A web developer critiques Google's dominant influence on the web, discussing the pros and cons of its initiatives like performance ranking and AMP.
Debunks the myth that complex software like Google Search is easy to build, explaining why it requires vast engineering resources.
A developer explores the difficulty of finding Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) through search engines and proposes solutions for better discoverability.
Explores how websites blocking non-Google crawlers in robots.txt files can harm web archives and create a search engine monopoly.
