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   Ben (thebreadmonkey@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 00:09:30 JST Ben

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     Sheldon (sysop408@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 23:08:21 JST Sheldon

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     • cobalt

     @cobalt this is funny, but it's not necessarily an AI content issue. Google is just shitty at spotlighting good content now. I had a site that benefited from that.

     For over a year, an event page I setup to promote a performance for the 80's band "Flock of Seagulls" kept showing up in Google's highlighted results leading us to get a puzzling amount of traffic for a topic that was barely relevant to our site.

     We weren't using AI content at all. We didn't do much more than post a stock press kit bio about the band plus a publicity photo they provided. I'm sure there were dozens of almost identical pages.

     I guess I should pat myself on the back for nailing the SEO so that this could happen, but there's no way a page on a regional website using boilerplate content should have been ranking anywhere near the top 5 in North America on a search like this.

     @TheBreadmonkey

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     cobalt (cobalt@awscommunity.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 23:08:22 JST cobalt

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     @TheBreadmonkey Whoa that’s a whole page of AI fakery! I didn’t imagine Google could get this bad.