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AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)
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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well, that was the last bit of usefulness I used to get out of google. I've been on yahoo for a while now

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yahoo is still alive?

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 7 months ago

Yep, it's sort of what google used to be. It took me a bit of setup tho. They really like to default to showing you a ton of news and crap. But after turning that all off I'm left with a super clean ui and useful search results

[–] p0q@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I see the yahoo ai bot is working well. /s

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 7 months ago

Absolutely, I am definitely not human