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Most people […] write […] comments […] and hope AI picks them up

Really quite sad if there’s even one person out there doing that.

This is also as much of a grift as any SEO that claims to have cracked the code of getting to the top of results. Even if they have figured something reproducible, it will get fixed. If someone can manipulate a search engine to provide results different to what it would otherwise do, that’s a bug they will fix

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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That “most people” part kinda reminds me of this: xkcd.com/2501/

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chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Will they though, search engine results lately seem very much like a decisive victory for the SEO slop

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- Temperche@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  only if u use google. Try Qwant.
  
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  - KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Or Kagi
    
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  - Drusas@fedia.io ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Or DDG.
    
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    Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    DDG is bing and definitely has the same problems.
    
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Sergio@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

If someone can manipulate a search engine to provide results different to what it would otherwise do, that’s a bug they will fix

But there are more people manipulating the results, than people fixing the bugs.

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- surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  But not in novel ways. Lots of exploiters using the same bug. Fix it once and they’re all fixed.
  
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