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Ranking update targets sites "created for search engines instead of people."

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Are they selling a "Verified" badge for your site, yet?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Please don't give them any ideas

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

That’s essentially what they’ve been trying to do in an extremely incompetent and in effective way for many years now. We’d actually be better off if they explicitly did it 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Because they know that using AI-generated nonsense to train their own AI-generated nonsense is a great way to turn their models into a gibbering mess. These models need quality content to emulate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I was hoping it would be because they realized its turned their search into shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Let's be real here: Even without AI, 99% of human-generated content is still shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Google has always been creepy but at least they used to have good products.