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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google
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The SEO spam that I find that Google is absolutely unable to filter out is all the AI-generated sites. They generally have a page with a long list of questions and poorly-generated answers.
It don't know if it's one company doing it at mass scale or if there are hordes of copycats, but it swamps Google search results these days.
New here? Japanese website have been mostly like that for decades now.
I haven't used Japanese websites enough to be able to provide a comparison.
It definitely wasn't the situation for English-based websites five years back. It was an issue at the beginning of this year. I don't know where it really started.
I started noticing it about a year and a half ago…
Pretty sure most of those are not AI generated (yet...).
They pay humans $2 an hour to write a paragraph ten different ways, then mix those with other paragraphs written by other people to create huge "content farms" of sites full of ads.
And they are deliberately shit - because they depend on visitors giving up and deciding to click an ad instead of whatever they came to the site for.