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A storefront for robots: The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.(www.theverge.com)

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PenguinTD@lemmy.ca
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Let’s not forget bot/AI generated websites that just copy paste some irrelevant content template but fits your search terms, and then feeds you tons of ads when you thought you found answers to your questions.

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xavier666@lemm.ee
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google “How to do X?”

AI pages are always like this

  • X is very useful
  • ads
  • X is used for a,b,c application
  • ads
  • Generic advice about how X can be done which everyone knows
  • ads
  • One line in the entire page which nudges you towards how to actually do X
  • ads
  • You should really try X
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Bene7rddso@feddit.de
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Either that or the article is a giant ad for a specific tool to do X

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