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I follow Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn on Twitter, though I don't visit often. There's a thread today following this article on Slate, about Google's algorithm for displaying recipe search results (and its deleterious effects)...

https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/why-googles-recipe-results-are-meaningless.html

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I’ve noticed how poor the results have become when using Google for recipe searches, as the article notes, you will often find a link to Allrecipes at the top of the search results, which is not where I want to source from. I have found myself going multiple pages into a search to find something suitable from a reliable source. Have I found bloggers that I didn’t see before? Yes, but I don’t have confidence in their proofing of a recipe, so its a roll of the dice.

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