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> With the way the system is designed, it's trivial to game the system in such a way that your ad-supported competitors get purged from the play store. Its onl
by sva_ 6y ago
> With the way the system is designed, it's trivial to game the system in such a way that your ad-supported competitors get purged from the play store.
Its only a matter of time until people start abusing this heavily, if they don't already do so. But then Google will probably have to do something about it, if it gets out of hand.
- matsemann 6y agoIt happened with SEO. People found a way to game their rankings by buying backlinks to their pages from spam sites. Google started punishing that behavior, so some have instead started buying backlinks for their competition to de-rank them.
- oefrha 6y agoUnfortunately, - Unscrupulous players gather inorganic points/votes/followers/whatever to get ahead in a ranking system; - Ranking system starts to detect inorganic stats and punish perpetrators; - Unscrupulous players target inorganic stats at competitors instead; is an all too common progression in any ranking system that can be gamed with input from third parties.
- withinboredom 6y agoThis reminds me of posting a free TV to Craigslist with your bosses phone number right before a stand up…
- varispeed 6y agoThat's why I pulled out all of my projects from Google index. Interestingly despite I disallow robots from parsing anything, I can still see residual data in search results over a year after I disabled crawling in robots.txt. Now my traffic is truly organic, because the only way of knowing about these is the good old word of mouth.