Oh god, of course they are. Haven’t checked on Microsoft News in a while, but the last time I did, they were promoting tons upon tons of transphobic propaganda.
Google News is indexing and promoting websites that immediately rip off others with AI clones of their articles. These websites are absolutely littered with Google ads.
Submitted 10 months ago by ugjka@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/111777756602054025
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ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
“Yup, Google gets to serve more ads, the scammer get paid, and users get to go fuck themselves. Everyone wins!” - Google
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
The proverbial cat of SEO has long gotten out of the bag. Google isn’t actively choosing one site over another so much as being “victims” of their own derived search engine heuristics.
I very much think a lot of work needs to be put in to resolve this. But I don’t really think having one of the biggest companies on the planet be the gate keeper of what news you do and don’t get to see would.
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’re called MFAs (Made For AdSense), nothing changed since the early AdSense days. It’s unlikely that Google is knowingly boosting them, it’s just that search engines have always been easy to game with artificial link building and keyword density maximization.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 10 months ago
direct link: www.404media.co/google-news-is-boosting-garbage-a…
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Ironically, a good article… From a source I’ve started to trust.
ripcord@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why ironic?
riskable@programming.dev 10 months ago
The AI clone wars have begun.
800XL@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So just websites then? They’re all designed to maximize ad space over content anyway.
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Periodic reminder to please directly subscribe to quality news sources to help fund good journalism. Especially local newspapers which have been really struggling. They are often the only ones holding your local elected officials accountable or reporting on them to any degree.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 10 months ago
…and stop complaining about iT’s bEhInD a PaYwaLL
There’s a good reason for that and it’s easy to learn how to bypass 99% of them
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I reserve the right to complain about it being behind a paywall when it’s from, say, the Washington Post. Basically a pet project of Jeff Bezos in the same way Hearst properties used to be. They say what he wants… I’m pretty sure he can afford to pay the remaining good journalists without relying on further funding.
For pretty much everybody else, I’m on board. I wish I was easier way to spend money, preferably without giving every single news organization my personal and banking info.