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Saw that coming. Just like Google did with the SEO heist a person bragged about a couple weeks ago, if you make big tech companies look foolish they are going t

Saw that coming. Just like Google did with the SEO heist a person bragged about a couple weeks ago, if you make big tech companies look foolish they are going to react quickly.

blinding-streak 3y ago
SEO heist?
- minimaxir 3y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38433856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38433856
minimaxir 3y ago
When did Google react to the SEO heist? I can't seem to find a source for it.
- nicklevin 3y ago
  https://x.com/rosshudgens/status/1729889490947518868 https://x.com/rosshudgens/status/1729889490947518868
  - gruez 3y ago
    This is still baffling. The tweets make it sound like they're competing against google and stole traffic from google, but their landing page makes it look like they're some sort of business modeling SaaS? Why would they be competing against google?
    - travem 3y ago
      They are competing against another business (not google), and through AI generation of content (based information gathered from the competitors site map) they were able to capture web traffic from Google that would previously have gone to their competitor.
      - ribosometronome 3y ago
        Isn't it just fighting over already low effort affiliate spam pages, anyway? The ideal result is seeing none of them.
        CuriousCosmic 3y ago
        The issue isn't just low effort affilate spam pages piss fighting with each other. It's that they were trying to sell the technique as a product to people who make actual content so that they could steer viewership of their other high-quality-content competitors towards AI generated garbage. Basically a weapon to taint your competitors brands by redirecting their viewers away from their content to ad saturated AI garbage.
  - ec109685 3y ago
    The follow up tweet says he typo'd the company name in the screenshot: https://twitter.com/RossHudgens/status/1729927440112189820 https://twitter.com/RossHudgens/status/1729927440112189820 And the tweet fundamentally misunderstands how ahref works. If google killed the site in question, ahref would have no idea given they have their own crawl.
mchanson 3y ago
Smart to do it Friday afternoon.
sneak 3y ago
Nothing about reimplementing an iMessage/APNS client from scratch makes Apple look foolish. If anything, it makes iMessage look desirable, like a long line in front of a nightclub. Literally everyone “saw that coming”. It’s also obvious that the client will be updated to make it work again, and the cycle will repeat.

Saw that coming. Just like Google did with the SEO heist a person bragged about a couple weeks ago, if you make big tech companies look foolish they are going to react quickly.

blinding-streak 3y ago

SEO heist?

minimaxir 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38433856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38433856

minimaxir 3y ago

When did Google react to the SEO heist? I can't seem to find a source for it.

nicklevin 3y ago
https://x.com/rosshudgens/status/1729889490947518868 https://x.com/rosshudgens/status/1729889490947518868
- gruez 3y ago
  This is still baffling. The tweets make it sound like they're competing against google and stole traffic from google, but their landing page makes it look like they're some sort of business modeling SaaS? Why would they be competing against google?
  - travem 3y ago
    They are competing against another business (not google), and through AI generation of content (based information gathered from the competitors site map) they were able to capture web traffic from Google that would previously have gone to their competitor.
    - ribosometronome 3y ago
      Isn't it just fighting over already low effort affiliate spam pages, anyway? The ideal result is seeing none of them.
      - CuriousCosmic 3y ago
        The issue isn't just low effort affilate spam pages piss fighting with each other. It's that they were trying to sell the technique as a product to people who make actual content so that they could steer viewership of their other high-quality-content competitors towards AI generated garbage. Basically a weapon to taint your competitors brands by redirecting their viewers away from their content to ad saturated AI garbage.
- ec109685 3y ago
  The follow up tweet says he typo'd the company name in the screenshot: https://twitter.com/RossHudgens/status/1729927440112189820 https://twitter.com/RossHudgens/status/1729927440112189820 And the tweet fundamentally misunderstands how ahref works. If google killed the site in question, ahref would have no idea given they have their own crawl.

mchanson 3y ago

Smart to do it Friday afternoon.

sneak 3y ago

Nothing about reimplementing an iMessage/APNS client from scratch makes Apple look foolish. If anything, it makes iMessage look desirable, like a long line in front of a nightclub. Literally everyone “saw that coming”. It’s also obvious that the client will be updated to make it work again, and the cycle will repeat.