• kamen
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    111 month ago

    There has been something similar for years: a page that basically says “Yeah, nah, we don’t have any information for that, but you might be interested in a totally irrelevant something else”, but phrased in a way that gets it high in the results. What’s astonishing is that Google doesn’t punish those pages.

    • @barsquid@lemmy.world
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      41 month ago

      Why would they punish pages that help them serve more ads? There are ads on the search, ads on the useless result, ads when you refine the query.

      • kamen
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        31 month ago

        Yeah, you have a point, but then it’s a bit hypocritical of them to even have criteria for putting pages up in the results.