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> So we should all just do nothing and accept the inevitable? I daresay rate-limiting will result in better outcomes than well-poisoning with hidden links that
by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> So we should all just do nothing and accept the inevitable?
I daresay rate-limiting will result in better outcomes than well-poisoning with hidden links that are against the policies of search engines.
Lots of potential for collateral damage, including your own websites' reputations and search visibility, with the well-poisoning approach.
- xantronix 7mo agoThe README.md specifically states how to allow for nice robots to proceed unhindered. The people behind these efforts, I would imagine, don't particularly care about their sites' reputations in the cases people use LLMs for search.
- ddtaylor 7mo agoTo be honest who cares about Google search anymore it's pretty useless these days.
- ninjagoo 7mo agoThe small non-profit I volunteer with finds Google ads to be surprisingly effective, and much more cost-effective than FB for what they do, so there's at least some Google search usage in the demographic that they serve.