Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads::More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites —and the problem is growing fast.

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127 points

“…wasting massive amounts of ad money.”

I don’t see this as a problem.

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81 points

And our time. I’m sick of googling something and getting nothing out these fluff pieces with little or no real information. It’s made Google near useless for entire subjects. Try searching for troubleshooting on anything Apple for example.

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Yeah it’s even shit for dumb searches.

Decided to Google the most popular SUVs and I get a top 10 article where it expects me to click through each one so it can load a new page and ads for each item in the list.

Then you get the news tab in edge, msn news maybe and half the ads are literal scams.

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The latter is infuriating to me. If I’m actually searching for a product, by all means show me an ad for the type of product I’m looking for. That’s a win-win scenario. How these mainstream sites put up literal scam ads I don’t understand. How can they be paying better than Ford?

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7 points

This is why you need to add reddit to the search.

Which is sad as hell.

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6 points

Use bing chat, it’s currently the best search engine out there

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5 points

I tried it for a few days initially but it was confidently wrong a third of the time, or very slow.

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Or the fun variant where you intentionally search for something in your native tongue because you want results relevant to your country and get badly translated articles that nowhere inform you that they are translated.

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Yes, but remember you’re not Google’s customer so … win-win for them

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