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I'd agree with the notion suggested in the article it may not even be about getting mothers to gamble as much as it is an attempt at blackhat SEO. Recruiting a
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
I'd agree with the notion suggested in the article it may not even be about getting mothers to gamble as much as it is an attempt at blackhat SEO. Recruiting a few new gamblers is small potatoes compared to redirecting a large amount of web traffic for gambling-related keywords on Google.
Several gambling firms are aggressively throwing money at the problem of trying to manipulate PageRank-like algorithms. I've seen examples of them sponsoring open source projects, ostensibly in order to purchase a link from a high ranking website.
Makes sense though when basically your entire budget goes to marketing.
- LeeroyWasHere 4y agoThat sounds like a more plausible explanation, they're trying to juice up. Plus, there's plenty of mobile games that are borderline gambling, look up monopoly go, it has all the hallmarks of creating addiction/gambling loops.
- TylerE 4y agoA lot of those mobile games are arguably worse. At least at a casino a small fraction of people actually walk away winners.
- jnsaff2 4y agoRemember the Target scandal way back when? [0] They had done the sciencing and found that there are only handful of life events where a large change of behavior can be made relatively easily. Graduation, marriage, giving birth to a child. The angle as I see it is to sneak in through that window and make gamblers out of those young mothers permanently. [0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....
- pepy 4y agoTarget is one of my favorite stories. I think I talked about this example at like few different universities.