@ross @sarajw And this paragraph is gold. With links...

@ross @sarajw
And this paragraph is gold.
With links to back it all up.
With "people mad" poking Google at https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/1/23942564/googles-danny-sullivan-responds-to-our-piece-about-the-culture-of-seo-hustlers .

It's weird because the correct answer to the query “what is the best printer” has not changed, but an entire ecosystem of content farms seems motivated to constantly update articles about printers in response to the incentive structure created by that robot’s obvious preferences. Pointing out that incentive structure and the culture that's developed around it seems to make a lot of people mad, which is also interesting!

Like 3 Apr 2024 at 11:15 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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Rihards Olups

@ross @sarajw
And they seem to be annoyed at Google in more ways than one :)

(skimming over that section I can confirm it's not worth reading)

Here’s what Google Gemini had to say when | asked it about Brother laser printers, which is not worth reading but which is by definition an incredible example of experience, expertise, authority, and trustworthiness because Google is synthesizing the entire web for this information, right? Isn’t that the whole idea of these LLMs, or are we just kind of fooling ourselves

3 Apr 2024 at 11:16 | Open on mastodon.social

Senil888 :drgn_uwu:

@richlv @ross @sarajw I read the whole section and it's not worth reading at all, outside for the insight of "this thing does not want to say one is better for most people."

3 Apr 2024 at 14:05 | Open on synth.senil888.com

Maikel 🇪🇺

@richlv thank you for pointing it out, my dark-reader hid all those links. The story is now thrice as funny.

@ross @sarajw

3 Apr 2024 at 12:02 | Open on vmst.io

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