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.