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Re:Google Search Is Dying by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Monday March 06, 2023 @10:56AM (#35042525)
The Reddit trick is increasingly less viable as marketers are astroturfing Reddit.
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Re:Google Search Is Dying by giraffe_lady on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:25AM (#35042913)
That's been a significant factor on reddit since 2008 or so. It may be getting worse or the dynamics changing, idk, but it's nowhere near new.
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Re:Google Search Is Dying by VHRanger on Monday March 06, 2023 @12:17PM (#35043699)
One advantage is that Reddit has a distributed network of volunteer mods whos incentives align with that of their own subreddit.

Google on the other hand has automated centralized content moderation.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by Night_Thastus on Monday March 06, 2023 @01:37PM (#35045501)
Agreed. What I've seen become more common is the following:

* They'll start by having <5 real comments that seem like a legitimate person wrote them * Account suddenly starts just re-posting very popular older posts, and other bots chime in that also copy the top comments from that post letter-for-letter * Account goes on to shill some product

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