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"How Google perfected the web" or how google made everything worst (www.theverge.com)
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Snippets: For reputable news outlets, the challenge of producing work that Google likes and that meets high-quality standards is magnified; you can’t fill articles with SEO-bait keywords without readers noticing.

The sleazier SEO strategists have already caught on, waiting and hoping for their chance to exploit whatever Google prioritizes. There are product recommendation articles with titles like “Best Espresso Machine Reddit 2023” and entire websites filled with reviews “according to Reddit” that appear to be fake accounts talking to each other. Some subreddits are overrun with affiliate link spam.

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[–] offendicula@fedia.io 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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[–] jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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