Comment by w-ll
2 years ago
i cant remember where i read this, but something about how google ranks site that have google ads higher than sites that dont. makese sense, its evil, but makes sense, thats why we get all this scrapped spam. is there any more info on this?
Intentionally ranking sites with Google ads higher would be a huge antitrust liability, so no way they're doing that.
On the other hand, they can achieve virtually the same outcome while keeping plausible deniability by just not doing anything that would downrank sites with ads (of which a significant chunk is likely to be Google's).
Spam sites often include ads.
i dont think they public disclose that fact
It doesn't need to be public to become an antitrust liability. Internal written material can still come up during discovery, potentially even in unrelated cases.
Therefore the safest option is to never openly discuss it or intentionally do it and instead use other means to achieve the objective (don't intentionally rank spam higher, just defund/cancel any projects that would make it rank lower).
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this is like focusing on one single problem as being the cause of the decline of the United States. It's actually a lot of things combining and there's not going to be one fix
wtf decline of the United States are you talking aboout