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One thing I find especially bizarre about the current situation: the pages that are making it to the top aren’t even pretending to be real content. If they wer

by amluto 2y ago

One thing I find especially bizarre about the current situation: the pages that are making it to the top aren’t even pretending to be real content. If they were difficult-to-detect LLM-generated pages, that would be one thing. But they’re generally extremely low-effort affiliate spam, mostly claiming that they researched something “so I don’t have to”, followed by a bunch of Amazon links and explicitly acknowledged scraped reviews, and finally an obviously uninformative summary. They don’t even pretend to have real content! What is Google doing?

bwb 2y ago
Ya, that is what is frustrating here. A lot of us believe that Google trained their AI on spam websites, but in the process, the AI now identifies a lot of things that independent websites have on them versus big brands like Forbes, which spam and license out huge sections of their websites to spammers. So we got pulled into this and Google doesn't care about the false positives. At this point, a lot of websites are not coming back. So get used to Forbes and other large brands being the only results along with AI bots on Quora.