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0 pointsrightbyte2y ago0 comments

> Google is facing incredible adversaries

Are they? Google could manually remove the worst SEO sites from the index and like reduce the spam you get for dev queries with like 95%.

It takes time to build up rank and like 10s to remove the site.

There is an extension that does this client side for Firefox. Try it. (I don't remember the name. I only have it on desktop).

The only explaintions are that Google is too dysfunctional to do anything or they are doing it on purpose to increase revenue. Otherwise there is no way the SEO would suddenly become this bad.

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parker_mountain2y ago

> Are they? Google could manually remove the worst SEO sites from the index and like reduce the spam you get for dev queries with like 95%.

Do you think they don't have a huge team doing just that? Easier said than done.

> The only explaintions are that Google is too dysfunctional to do anything or they are doing it on purpose to increase revenue. Otherwise there is no way the SEO would suddenly become this bad.

This is not based in reality.

rightbyteOP2y ago

> Do you think they don't have a huge team doing just that? Easier said than done.

How can the Stackoverflow mirrors, that kinda hide that they are mirrors, rank so high then? If there was any team at Google doing manual review, the Google engineers would spam them with mails complaining that those site ruins their copy-pasta coding flow.

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