• kamen@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      There has been something similar for years: a page that basically says “Yeah, nah, we don’t have any information for that, but you might be interested in a totally irrelevant something else”, but phrased in a way that gets it high in the results. What’s astonishing is that Google doesn’t punish those pages.

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        2 months ago

        Why would they punish pages that help them serve more ads? There are ads on the search, ads on the useless result, ads when you refine the query.

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          2 months ago

          Yeah, you have a point, but then it’s a bit hypocritical of them to even have criteria for putting pages up in the results.

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      Hah!

      No.

      Soon enough the result will be an AI generated “blogpost”, generated by the search engine, in response to your query.