Comment on People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays

• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When we’re talking about the issues of search engines, and a whole bunch of people come in and “organically” promote a paid service, then my astroturfing detection rises up. This is how modern advertisement works and it fucking sucks.

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  • dsemy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I get what you’re saying, but it’s not very nice to accuse people of astroturfing when you can quickly look at their other posts/comments.

    Literally every person in this subthread who said something positive about Kagi is very clearly just a normal user who has recently posted things completely unrelated to it, judging by their history.

    Maybe I’m being naive about how sophisticated these campaigns have gotten, but it seems unlikely that a small company will invest the effort in making it seem this believable on such a niche platform.

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