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> If the SERPs are filled with garbage That's already the case. GPT-3 might be faster, but there's literally millions of humans producing absolute garbage for
by bserge 6y ago
> If the SERPs are filled with garbage
That's already the case. GPT-3 might be faster, but there's literally millions of humans producing absolute garbage for pennies. I'm talking 1000 word, quite readable articles (that make little sense if you pay close attention) for $5 or less.
Used to be a time when it was really easy to rank at the top with just that kind of content.
But Google managed to filter all that out, for the most part. Pretty sure they can deal with computer generated text, too.
- newsbinator 6y agoI guess one way Google filters out the junk articles is that people who read them don't end their search, and keep looking for the same information after visiting the useless, wordy stuff.
- bserge 6y agoYeah they used to track time on site (with Google Analytics or if the user clicks the "back" button), probably still do. Hyperlinks still play an important role - if someone links to the article's URL, that automatically increases its rank. No one links to trash. Links from known spam websites will downrank the article or the whole website really fast. Timestamps used to be abused back when Google preferred the newest stuff - just update it every day or hour and it's the freshest article in the world in Googlebot's eyes. It's a really impressive piece of technology, and they have a ton of experience fighting abuse on their SERPs - it's happening constantly and it will continue to as long as search engines exist.