Search engines and SEO spam

Re:Search engines and SEO spam by max49 on Monday January 03, 2022 @12:58PM (#29783857)

>I'm not sure there is any technological solution

The technological solution would be to stop rewarding them for these monstrosities. One of the main motivator for turning a short recipes into a 19 page essai about the chef's life is that more words = better ranking.

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Re:Search engines and SEO spam by deltarholamda on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:30PM (#29785241)

But the technology is solely controlled by a single multinational advertising corporation. The motivations are controlled by that same advertising corporation.

Which is the same as there being no technological solutions.

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Re:Search engines and SEO spam by notreallyserio on Monday January 03, 2022 @01:04PM (#29783923)

And funny enough, it's obvious that Google's engineers know this because they're adding more small, self-hosted featured results to the top of the page all the time.

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Re:Search engines and SEO spam by Nextgrid on Monday January 03, 2022 @01:56PM (#29784717)

And the end game is that ads pay for it. Nuke ads or downrank them and the incentive goes away, making space for enthusiast non-profit-driven websites.

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