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Re:Reputation management firms bury Google results by placin... by save_ferris on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:16PM (#21784998)
What’s so frustrating about this is that Status Labs will never be called out for this. And even if they do, they’d probably use their platform of fake news outlets to drown out criticism, because this is exactly what they do for a living.

Our ability to inform the public online is fundamentally broken, and here are these guys making a killing by literally lying to the world.

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Re:Reputation management firms bury Google results by placin... by nathancahill on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:36PM (#21785183)
A guy was pitching me his SEO services as being the best in the business. He offered me his business card but I said, don't worry, when I need an SEO guy I'll search google for one and you should be the first result!
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Re:Reputation management firms bury Google results by placin... by alex_stoddard on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:23PM (#21785651)
https://www.xkcd.com/125/
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Re:Reputation management firms bury Google results by placin... by smexy on Friday December 13, 2019 @07:29PM (#21786943)
There's a relevant xkcd for everything!
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Re:Reputation management firms bury Google results by placin... by jeffdavis on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:18PM (#21785595)
"Our ability to inform the public online is fundamentally broken"

Is it worse than before or was it always broken?

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Re:Reputation management firms bury Google results by placin... by lordnacho on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:40PM (#21785802)
It can be both, but in the old world you couldn't just conjure up a whole newspaper with flattering content. The fact that costs have changed is significant in a qualitative way.
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Re:Reputation management firms bury Google results by placin... by bostik on Saturday December 14, 2019 @07:49AM (#21789254)
Airdropping news fliers for propaganda purposes was a thing, once.

These days it's carpet bombing black propaganda via all means online. If you control printed and/or TV news too, all the better.

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Re:Reputation management firms bury Google results by placin... by chrisdhoover on Friday December 13, 2019 @06:19PM (#21786534)
Remember the Maine!
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