#27 - How Google is Killing the Best Site On the Internet

By
PJ Vogt
and
Alex Goldman
On the Media | Jun 2, 2014

A couple weeks ago, Matt Haughey, the founder of TLDR's favorite website, Metafilter, announced that his website is dying. And he says it's because Google algorithmically stopped directing traffic to the site over a year ago. Alex tries to figure out what you do when Google's algorithm decides it no longer likes you.

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