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Theyre optimizing for ad revenue by having their search results be good enough that ads are worth looking at.

• math-dev 4y ago
  For example, they may show a copy of stack overflow because it has more ads - for many users they will still click through and deem the copy site sufficient. Same thing with other SEO sites that blatantly copy other websites
  • yunohn 4y ago
    Stack Overflow has its own ads, it doesn’t appear to use Google. Why would they optimise for those clicks?
    • math-dev 4y ago
      That’s the point - people are saying google is promoting the SEO sites that copy content from stack overflow and use googles ad system
      • gundmc 4y ago
        Do you have any evidence of this? It would be a huge scandal if Google was found to be boosting organic SERP rankings/placement based on the site's use of Google Ads and I have no reason to believe this is true.
        • math-dev 4y ago
          No evidence, just conjecture.
• denton-scratch 4y ago
  No ads are worth looking at.