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TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago

A storefront for robots: The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.

www.theverge.com

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A storefront for robots: The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.

www.theverge.com

alyaza [they/she] ( alyaza@beehaw.org ) MA to

TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago

The store is for people, but the storefront is for robots

www.theverge.com

Selling real things to real people means writing a steady stream of nonsense text that only web crawlers will ever read.

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