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alyaza [they/she]M to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 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]M to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago
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The store is for people, but the storefront is for robots
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Selling real things to real people means writing a steady stream of nonsense text that only web crawlers will ever read.
  • @AineLasagna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    30•2 years ago

    “But muh capitalism breeds innovation”

    • The Bard in Green
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      21•2 years ago

      My standard response is “capitalism breeds escalation, which can sometimes cause innovation, but always breaks down in absurdity.”

      • @Dymonika@beehaw.org
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        4•2 years ago

        You need the last word to end in “-ation” to keep the rhyme going!

        • @joelfromaus@aussie.zone
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          5•2 years ago

          “capitalism breeds escalation, which can sometimes cause innovation, but always breaks down into masturbation.”

          Done.

      • @z3n0x@feddit.de
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        2•2 years ago

        gonna steal that

    • babelspace
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      Short sighted behavior is hardly limited to capitalist enterprises, though.

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