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a query for "why does my heater take a long time to turn on" will turn up many first-page results like this one: https://candcheat.com/10-reasons-why-your-heate
by jhp123 3y ago
a query for "why does my heater take a long time to turn on" will turn up many first-page results like this one: https://candcheat.com/10-reasons-why-your-heater-fails-to-turn-off/ https://candcheat.com/10-reasons-why-your-heater-fails-to-tu... which is shallow SEO content aimed at getting you to pay for a fix rather than answering the question.
I run into these kinds of pages constantly as I try to debug common household issues (HVAC, electrical, automotive, etc.)
- verteu 3y agoGood example, thanks. SEO spam like this is indeed a problem. Perhaps the underlying issue is that GSearch was originally designed to "find webpages," not "answer questions." (I'd expect that high-quality, official webpages exist for queries like "Nest Thermostat G4CVZ operating manual" or "HVAC enthusiast forum." But that's not the case for a question like yours, and SEO spammers have fooled Google to become the best result.)