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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by TylerE on Sunday January 19, 2020 @11:17PM (#22096256)
How would this help anything? It would make the blackhat SEO even easier, if anything.
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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by dredmorbius on Monday January 20, 2020 @12:06AM (#22096453)
The results could be audited.

Fail an audit, lose your reputation (ranking).

The basic principle of auditing is to randomly sample results. BlackHat SEO tends to rely on volume in ways that would be very difficult to hide from even modest sampling sizes.

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