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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
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Then people could derank sites by copying them to stack overflow.
And quickly they'll get deleted again: spam postings on SO are generally very short-lived.
Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#83Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have a fix already and applied it to the Wikipedia clones. They intentionally ignore other content scrapers because they drive ad impressions.
I wish google had a feature to permanently ban domains from search results.
Why not just create your own search box and put -site:domain.xyz in the query? Maybe there is a length limit but at least you can ban some
Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#85I don’t know if everyone knows that SEO stands for search engine optimization and it is > the process of maximizing the number of visitors to a particular website by ensuring that the site appears high on the list of results returned by a search engine.
Do you think there's anyone on HN who doesn't know "If you don't know what something is, just type its name into your search engine?" this was on the first page of DuckDuckGo results for "SEO": https://moz.com/learn/seo/what-is-seo
I was trying to save that search, but I accept your advice.
Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#86God, those scrapers... You Google something & the results you get are c/p-ed from GitHub issues, with mangled formatting, and no link back to the original content.
We need domain-banners back in Google!
Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#87I'm beginning to think that someone might be able to knock off Google. Remember Myspace? They were #1 once. Then revenue went down and they compensated by putting in more ads. Then they became irrelevant. Broadcast TV did the same thing. Facebook seems headed down that road.
Running a search engine isn't that expensive. Held down to 10% ad content and run with a modest staff, this could work out.
Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#88Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have any examples of that? Sounds far-fetched to me, since SO posts: (a) are in response to very specific questions (b) can be easily reported to SO for plagiarism (c) make no $$ for the poster, reducing the incentive to plagiarize
You misunderstand the parent comment. They’re saying there are full sites which just scrape SO content. These are not hosted in StackExchange and therefore are not subject to their reporting system, and generally are filled with ads which provide the money and therefore incentive.
> You misunderstand the parent comment.
I don’t think so. The parent seems to talk about StackOverflow answers plagiarizing some small blogs, not StackOverflow itself being scraped.
Not an issue I’ve witnessed though.
Re: Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
#90Whenever 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 questi…
Those are not shallow blogspam. Those are actually good articles derived from the man experience.