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This whole site reads like blogspam. The copy has that uncanny "SEO-optimized" je ne sas quoi to it, with a writing style halfway between "high-school newspaper

This whole site reads like blogspam. The copy has that uncanny "SEO-optimized" je ne sas quoi to it, with a writing style halfway between "high-school newspaper" and "coding interview cheat-sheet written by an Indian ex-pat", using parts of the English language without understanding the underlying meaning or where they fit in - like a script kiddie, but with natural language. Does anyone else get the heebie-jeebies when they read "uncanny" text like this?

skrtskrt 7y ago
I just experienced this googling when particular 2021 car models come out, hoping to find out what upgrades might be coming. There's a website for each car with near-gibberish write-ups full of keywords that tell you absolutely nothing. And they're on the first page of google! https://www.2020lexus.com/car-reviews-2019-2020/ https://www.2020lexus.com/car-reviews-2019-2020/ First paragraph: "Honda Civic is actually 1 of the most recent car that are designed by Honda. This car is a sedan car hybrid of which are developed to be used for metropolis car used."
- codr7 7y ago
  Who needs actually translators when Google works enough well general used?
  - samvimes 7y ago
    Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
- derefr 7y ago
  I feel like I would enjoy the Internet a lot more if I had a "spam filter" that just hid everything that reads like that. It'd certainly make the experience of browsing e.g. YouTube 10x better, with all the content farms filtered out.
- kolanos 7y ago
  Check out Edmunds.com, they will give you a rundown on changes for a model year over year.
fortran77 7y ago
Of course. The Rust people here will upvote anything about Rust, even AI generated blogspam.
eljimmy 7y ago
It really does present itself as a pseudo-ad for Hatchpad. No date, no author...
- bootlooped 7y ago
  I think the author is Lauren Alexander (found in a box in the upper right of the desktop site). But that is confusing because there is a picture of man with the subtitle "Thought Leader Insight" directly above the article, sort of implying whoever is pictured there is the author.

skrtskrt 7y ago

I just experienced this googling when particular 2021 car models come out, hoping to find out what upgrades might be coming. There's a website for each car with near-gibberish write-ups full of keywords that tell you absolutely nothing. And they're on the first page of google! https://www.2020lexus.com/car-reviews-2019-2020/ https://www.2020lexus.com/car-reviews-2019-2020/ First paragraph: "Honda Civic is actually 1 of the most recent car that are designed by Honda. This car is a sedan car hybrid of which are developed to be used for metropolis car used."

codr7 7y ago
Who needs actually translators when Google works enough well general used?
- samvimes 7y ago
  Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
derefr 7y ago
I feel like I would enjoy the Internet a lot more if I had a "spam filter" that just hid everything that reads like that. It'd certainly make the experience of browsing e.g. YouTube 10x better, with all the content farms filtered out.
kolanos 7y ago
Check out Edmunds.com, they will give you a rundown on changes for a model year over year.

fortran77 7y ago

Of course. The Rust people here will upvote anything about Rust, even AI generated blogspam.

eljimmy 7y ago

It really does present itself as a pseudo-ad for Hatchpad. No date, no author...

bootlooped 7y ago
I think the author is Lauren Alexander (found in a box in the upper right of the desktop site). But that is confusing because there is a picture of man with the subtitle "Thought Leader Insight" directly above the article, sort of implying whoever is pictured there is the author.