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Escaping Google's manual reputation penalty and resuming business as usual

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168 points fueloil | 3 comments | 21 Dec 24 14:24 UTC | HN request time: 1.284s | source
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nothercastle ◴[21 Dec 24 16:21 UTC] No.42480493[source]▶
Just goes to show you how far behind the SEO scammers Google is. Despite being bigger and wealthier Google simply can’t catch the more nimble SEO scammers
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wkat4242 ◴[21 Dec 24 16:28 UTC] No.42480527[source]▶
I'm pretty sure Google is milking them now by just selling ad words, they no longer care about the search results, just how much money they make
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1. Drakim ◴[21 Dec 24 17:18 UTC] No.42480867[source]▶
What you are saying sounds like hyperbole, but all it takes is for the management within google to blindly chase metrics and they end up doing exactly that.
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2. Nextgrid ◴[21 Dec 24 17:21 UTC] No.42480893[source]▶
That's the point - willingly saying that they promote spam sites to milk ad revenue could land them in antitrust trouble. But all they have to so is merely not do anything that would downrank said spam sites, and the outcome is exactly the same yet they are now legally in the clear and can just blame incompetence for the (totally predictable) outcome.
3. bootloop ◴[21 Dec 24 17:34 UTC] No.42480964[source]▶
I mean that is exactly what each and every Google team does. There is no decision being made without having the data "supporting" it.

But every graph can be shown nicely and things which are common sense don't need a metric to proof it.