Click bait and switch: has the internet swapped out knowledge for monetisation?

Search engine optimisation, advertising run amok, users as customers: has the internet become a little bit crap and, if so, how do we fix it? In this podcast, we discuss the problem with the internet's funding model, whether it could learn a thing or two from the BBC, and continue a seemingly futile quest for a decent cheese-ranking website.

A few things we mentioned in this podcast:

- Is Google Getting Worse? https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf
- Hacker News forum says ‘yes’ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39013497
- How Google is killing independent websites https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/
- Dead Internet Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
- The Eternal September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

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