TechCrunch: Perfectly Click-Baity, Perfectly Anti-SEO, One Paycheck
David Quaid
May 21, 2026
TechCrunch — a website that lives and dies by Google traffic — has taken its turn and also declared Google Search dead, in an article that will never be found via Google Search. Poetic, really. Almost like they’re beta testing the post-SEO world on themselves. SEOs Ruined the internet; never