Snippets: For reputable news outlets, the challenge of producing work that Google likes and that meets high-quality standards is magnified; you can’t fill articles with SEO-bait keywords without readers noticing.

The sleazier SEO strategists have already caught on, waiting and hoping for their chance to exploit whatever Google prioritizes. There are product recommendation articles with titles like “Best Espresso Machine Reddit 2023” and entire websites filled with reviews “according to Reddit” that appear to be fake accounts talking to each other. Some subreddits are overrun with affiliate link spam.

  • @qwertyqwertyqwerty
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    206 months ago

    Is anyone else on a high DPI monitor seeing how wild this site design looks?

    • @Plopp@lemmy.world
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      116 months ago

      It looks like ass on a regular phone display. I don’t know what that design is called or why it exists, but it needs to not be a thing.

      • offendicula
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        86 months ago

        It’s not even loading for me (Vivaldi on Android). I ran it through Textized. It’s on the Verge alright… verge of unreadability 🙄