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Re:Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not g... by _fat_santa on Thursday February 02, 2023 @11:18AM (#34628712)
It's already pretty bad with Github/SO threads. Guys will scrape threads on GH/SO and repost them to their sites, usually with a ton of ads but the post ranks higher than the original thread so it will come up first when you google an error.
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Re:Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not g... by vernon99 on Thursday February 02, 2023 @11:53AM (#34629312)
How could it rank higher tho? SO has a huge domain ranking. How an arbitrary website can compete with that?

I always thought it’s the opposite and platforms like SO and Medium incentivise posting there exactly via their crazy domain ranking.

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Re:Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not g... by kadoban on Thursday February 02, 2023 @12:55PM (#34630436)
> How could it rank higher tho? SO has a huge domain ranking. How an arbitrary website can compete with that?

It's unclear, but they do. My guess would be that they're willing to do shadier SEO than SO will, and any that get caught just stand up more domains.

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Re:Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not g... by adventured on Thursday February 02, 2023 @02:16PM (#34631670)
It's usually temporary, until Google tags the copycat site as a spammy content farm and destroys its ability to rank. I haven't seen a site sustain high ranking / lots of traffic through copying Stackoverflow in maybe a decade at this point (since Panda etc.).
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Re:Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not g... by omnicognate on Thursday February 02, 2023 @02:39PM (#34631949)
It doesn't matter, though. It's a hydra. Different sites over time but the result is that google results on programming topics are reliably, and increasingly, shit. I gave up on it and pay for Kagi.
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Re:Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not g... by michaelcampbell on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:09PM (#34633907)
It doesn't need to sustain it, it just needs to be there when you search. I generally get SO first, but I see a LOT of copycats on the first page of DDG/Google when I search.
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Re:Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not g... by _fat_santa on Thursday February 02, 2023 @01:06PM (#34630587)
They probably rank higher on long tail keywords. Usually for more in the weeds issues that don't get as much search volume
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Re:Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not g... by moralestapia on Thursday February 02, 2023 @03:00PM (#34632187)
>How could it rank higher tho?

Because they sell more clicks, impressions, etc...

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Re:Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not g... by cruano on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:10PM (#34633080)
Even if it doesn't, you now suddenly have the top 20+ results with the exact same info
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Re:Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not g... by a_wild_dandan on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:39PM (#34633507)
That's why I have Firefox bookmarks where I type `s <query>` into the address bar which enters `site:stackoverflow.com <query>` into my search engine. Likewise for `r <query>` => `site:reddit.com <query>`.

This annihilates the SEO spam and is useful for most of my searches. It's glorious finding recipe ingredients without wading through a blogger's life story or a search result page filled exclusively with ads above the fold.

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