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Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
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Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#22What really ticks me off are all these sites clearly scraping content from Stack Overflow that somehow end up near the top of the search results. How is there not an automated fix for this. Lemme help you out with this Googlers: If site content A == site content B, pagerank = -1.
Using that rule it would be very easy to derank any website.
Not if the list of A sites was manually curated. Like stackoverflow and wikipedia. This isn't hard for shooting down a ton of sites.
Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#23What really ticks me off are all these sites clearly scraping content from Stack Overflow that somehow end up near the top of the search results. How is there not an automated fix for this. Lemme help you out with this Googlers: If site content A == site content B, pagerank = -1.
So both sites lose? That'll make manipulation easier than ever before.
Or does the older site win? Frequently scraped / already popular sites will love that.
Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#24Can't say I'm ever surprised to see another "WTF Google" post. The search has degraded a lot over the years. With that said, I've tried to switch on more than one occasion and Bing might be the only alternative that worked for me. DuckDuckGo is always way off the mark, no matter how many chances I've given it over the years. Google still wins, even with the ads and spammy stuff.
Some people here a few days ago recommended kagi, a paid service with a limited free option. I have been trying it and so far the results seem great!
I've switched. It's great at least for devs.
Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#25Whenever articles like these are published, I wonder who the Author thinks does the work of writing free articles on the Internet just for their pleasure. Content is expensive and is created by writers who must be paid. To demand quality articles from the Internet, you must be willing to pay for them. Nobody exists just to write free passionate articles on the Internet and earn no money from them.
It was that way for more than decade. The internet used to be nothing but passion projects
Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#26Whenever articles like these are published, I wonder who the Author thinks does the work of writing free articles on the Internet just for their pleasure. Content is expensive and is created by writers who must be paid. To demand quality articles from the Internet, you must be willing to pay for them. Nobody exists just to write free passionate articles on the Internet and earn no money from them.
Plus, Mr. Dubakov knows damn well why people write those types of articles. In fact, he's published quite a few shallow search optimized articles on the same Medium blog he's using to complain about the practice and on the Fibery blog. He does it to publicize his startup, just like most of the others.
e.g.
10 Top Product Marketing Bullshit Things in 2022
Survival guide for an introverted CEO
10 worst interview questions
5 Biggest Problems in Software Development
Overcoming fear of public speaking in 8 easy & honest tips
Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#27What really ticks me off are all these sites clearly scraping content from Stack Overflow that somehow end up near the top of the search results. How is there not an automated fix for this. Lemme help you out with this Googlers: If site content A == site content B, pagerank = -1.
So both sites lose? That'll make manipulation easier than ever before. Or does the older site win? Frequently scraped / already popular sites will love that.
Derank the newer page, you don't need to derank the entire site.
Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#28What really ticks me off are all these sites clearly scraping content from Stack Overflow that somehow end up near the top of the search results. How is there not an automated fix for this. Lemme help you out with this Googlers: If site content A == site content B, pagerank = -1.
Cue a HN post “wtf google, my archive website is getting marked as spam.”
Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#29What really ticks me off are all these sites clearly scraping content from Stack Overflow that somehow end up near the top of the search results. How is there not an automated fix for this. Lemme help you out with this Googlers: If site content A == site content B, pagerank = -1.
Cue a HN post “wtf google, my archive website is getting marked as spam.”
I don't want your archive website near the top of my search results when the original is readily accessible.
Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#30What really ticks me off are all these sites clearly scraping content from Stack Overflow that somehow end up near the top of the search results. How is there not an automated fix for this. Lemme help you out with this Googlers: If site content A == site content B, pagerank = -1.
So both sites lose? That'll make manipulation easier than ever before. Or does the older site win? Frequently scraped / already popular sites will love that.
It kinda sounds like you think that Google doesn't have the resources to have a human decide that stackoverflow isn't itself a spam clone.
This is a huge problem for a very small number of sites and a non-existent problem for everything else. The list of authoritative, egregiously-copied sources could easily be maintained by one person. The only difficulty comes from determining when to trigger the system.