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SEO will respond by creating 100% robot-operated communities that upvote their blogs, essentially shifting the burden onto Reddit/HN/Twitter staff, which will s
by hamstergene 5y ago
SEO will respond by creating 100% robot-operated communities that upvote their blogs, essentially shifting the burden onto Reddit/HN/Twitter staff, which will surely fall just like Google's did.
It looks so obvious to me yet the article doesn't even mention the word "bot" as a factor in modern Internet. To solve such a hard problem one has to try a lot harder than this.
- ricardo81 5y agoWas my initial thought also. Pagerank was initially a game changer until it became common knowledge that sites/pages need links to rank. Being able to set up thousands of sock puppet accounts on Reddit/Twitter/wherever would be the logical consequence if this algo was implemented.
- darkerside 5y agoI agree with you, but I don't think that's a reason not to do this. It's an arms race, but the only alternative is not to play, and live with shit content. We'll figure out the next move after this one gets gamed.