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Google & content farming

2023-02-27 20:39:44.119029+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

RT Rich Felker @dalias@hachyderm.io

@stereo @futurebird They could easily just exclude all the content farm drivel from indexing. They don't and that's a very intentional choice. According to Googlers, it's because their lawyers VIEW THAT DRIVEL AS COMPETITION IN THE SAME LINE OF BUSINESS and freak out about antitrust.

RT Rich Felker @dalias@hachyderm.io

@stereo @futurebird Repeating this for folks in the back:

Google's own lawyers believe their line of business is machine assisted/generated content farm drivel.

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