This article is a great headline that doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what’s wrong. I’d say the internet has become an Amazon-style marketplace of fake do-do. Anything you search for results in nothing but endless fake domains with fake reviews designed to pitch you more ads and track you even more. Finding an actual original legitimate source of anything is essentially impossible at this point.
How do you find an authoritative source on the web, if you're not one of the older generation who figured them out earlier?
Google directs you to a handful of big-name sites and a large pile on the spectrum between blogs and content farms. Facebook will only give you other Facebook pages. When I tried to track my passport application last year, my government passport agency was only available via Twitter.
Good luck getting to an actual authoritative organisation that runs their own website, or a college professor who actually has specialist knowledge about the subject.
I do find it incredibly hard to find anything resembling a trustworthy source of info on a bunch of topics.
Travel? Full of nonsense
Diet? Don’t even try
Exercise? Maybe
Health/Medical? No
Anything I might purchase? Depending on the category, everything is an advert by someone who has barely done anything with the product.
every month a new site that lift content off stack overflow and somehow manages to top it in Google results is born, and that's an extremely niche audience with laser focused searches. I can't fathom what the web looks like to the untechnicals that don't know how to filter by domain or add keywords to remove the most egregious spam
sure the good stuff is out there of you know how to find it, but the discovery is getting worse by the years
