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Christian metal band sues netflix because google won't show them anymore. (stereogum.com)

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[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Please elaborate on how Google is changing the search rankings. I've worked with Google SEO for decades and I've never seen or heard of this. I've only seen people try to outsmart the system, and then years later are blacklisted for doing shady stuff. Nothing in the article even mentioned Google.

But I've never heard of Google manually changing rankings. So you're saying there's a conspiracy to rank a Christian metal band from 20 years ago lower than a newly released movie/series with a similar name. Which just happens to be the most watched movie on Netflix.

The system seems to be working exactly as intended. Fresh original relevant content to the top rankings.

Why would someone expect the opposite? Why do you think Google is involved at all?