Google: "Our search results are better than ever!"
also Google: "Publicly pointing out how you gamed our search results will result in us manually deleting your site from our results. Also, nothing to see here."
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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They are better than ever... for Google. They have never been more profitable.
Parasite SEO with AI has been a growing issue for years, this is not the first by any definition.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The site relies heavily on Google search traffic, and with the tech giant periodically updating how it ranks websites, Bruns wondered whether he'd fallen out of the company's favor.
"The usual signal methods of what's true are no longer clear, and trusted sources like Google searches don't turn up the right things anymore," said Ethan Mollick, an associate professor at Wharton who studies the impact of AI.
SEO professionals help websites improve their ranking in search results, using tactics ranging from official Google trend analysis to more dubious trucks to game the system.
An expat from the north of England now living in Dubai, Ward and his business partner worked to boost business-planning software startup's Causal's presence on Google — in part by using generative AI to feed off Exceljet's existing content.
Even more galling for Bruns: When he reviewed the AI-generated Causal posts, he found factual errors in some articles, with one describing a purported feature that doesn't exist in Excel.
Sports Illustrated's publisher recently fired the magazine's CEO following a brouhaha over its publication of articles that featured fake writers and AI-generated profile pictures.
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