lol, I have to agree with SEO spam. I tried looking for a good pasta sauce recipe lately. I remembered something recommended by Pocket, which was amazing (Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking), but it didn't even show up in the first few Google search pages for pasta. None of the results were even a variation of the superior recipes.
The top search result has 9 (!) ads, mentions the book, but butchers everything that makes the recipe good. It shows rave reviews and a rating of 4.8. It probably is better than what everyone's mom taught them, and better compared to a generic tin can sauce. But I think the old school algorithm of "best selling cookbook" does better.
Try looking for other heavily SEO-ed things and it's even more hopeless: weight loss, business advice, games.
I recently came across the following website in a HN thread complaining about bloat in recipe websites, I haven’t tried it out yet but it’s an interesting premise:
The top search result has 9 (!) ads, mentions the book, but butchers everything that makes the recipe good. It shows rave reviews and a rating of 4.8. It probably is better than what everyone's mom taught them, and better compared to a generic tin can sauce. But I think the old school algorithm of "best selling cookbook" does better.
Try looking for other heavily SEO-ed things and it's even more hopeless: weight loss, business advice, games.