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greenchair ◴[] No.42480632[source]
geo location trick is absolutely fascinating!
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Nextgrid ◴[] No.42480871[source]
And also absolutely trivial to detect automatically. The fact that Google doesn't do it proves they don't give a shit about improving search quality beyond superficial efforts whose main objective is just to make it look like they do. Maybe the fact that most spam sites have Google Analytics & Ads has something to do with it?
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1. Macha ◴[] No.42481610[source]
I mean spammers can (and do) get more fancy with e.g. detecting the source AS and its owner for cloaking, but I guess the spammers here are using geo location for a veneer plausible deniability that they're not specifically targeting Google.