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People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays (lemm.ee)
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[–] krzschlss@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's rather tragic that a tribute band called Dark Star gets priority over a scientific Dark Star. I don't know if it's because more people search for the band or because this search engine is trying to sell you albums by this band...

[–] Soylentcolaispeople@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, the band puts a lot of effort into marketing and keyword targeting, and scientific teams researching dark stars only publish for specific spaces towards other scientific people that are already looking at those places.

[–] krzschlss@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don't mind it. I just think we all should value scientific research into astronomy, no matter the volume of interest, more than marketing strategies for a product, be it art or not. I might be wrong tho...