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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:14PM (#20689235)
> Content farms were huge before Google started kicking them out in 2011. Have they made a comeback?

Have they not? Content marketing seems as alive as ever, if not more.

> Google's latest attempt to keep the crap under control (AMP) is very unpopular on Hacker News, but I guess it shows they are trying to do something?

Because we - myself and many of those other HNers disliking it - believe that with AMP, making web more performant and less crappy is only an excuse, and one that doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by skybrian on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:45PM (#20689505)
It's hard to tell since there is little in the news about them, but it seems like once, content farms were fast-growing businesses, and now they are bottom feeders? Or maybe they're just boring compared to all the other threats nowadays?
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