Bitter, cynical Verge article blames SEOs for ruining the internet

Amanda Chicago Lewis thinks SEO pirates have ruined Google Search and the internet. Yes, SEOs went beyond the world wide web – where you’ve optimized websites and content for nearly 30 years – and wrecked the whole internet. (Lewis hasn’t yet figured out that the world wide web is basically just an application that runs on the internet. It all starts with an “alligator party” (because, Florida) that actually seems to be more in the affiliate marketing world, not the SEO world. We revisit well-trampled ground – the “Google Search is terrible” narrative – with links to four articles complaining about a search engine used by 3.2 billion people every month.