Re:What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?
by floatingatoll on Thursday October 14, 2021 @07:59AM
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GPT3-alike, not GPT3 specifically. Google’s bot can’t detect when it’s being fed plausible gibberish, or worse, stolen content with random keywords injected. I’m very curious if your Googlebot surfing comes up with any interesting outcomes!
Re:What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?
by fiddlerwoaroof on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:45AM
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I wonder if Google indexes with browser user agents sometimes: unless the site used source IP tricks, it’d let Google detect this sort of thing.
Re:What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?
by IX-103 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @10:12AM
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Supposedly the Chrome safe browsing service crawls the web looking for malware. Since that's focused on finding malware they likely make it look like a normal user in terms of user agent and IP address, so it can probably detect these pages.
I believe the signals from the safe browsing service are used to affect search result ranking, but I have no idea if they look for different content being served to the Google crawler.
So if the User Agent is Google, the website produces relevant-sounding content with no JavaScript spam? I never realized GPT-3 could be used for this. The next time I see a bait-and-switch website in my search, I'll try changing my User Agent to Google.