#seo-spam on Hacker News

3 stories tagged seo-spam, newest first.

Screenshot of trellner.com: Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them (trellner.com)

494 points by jakobgreenfeld 1 month ago | 242 comments

Trellner Research report finding that most sources cited by web-grounded AI models for software recommendations are low-traffic sites, including mass-produced pages built for AI.

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Screenshot of danluu.com: Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT

Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT (danluu.com)

856 points by 882542F3884314B 2 years ago | 433 comments

Dan Luu blog post comparing search result quality across Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT using sample queries.

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Screenshot of blog.sandworm.dev: 50% of new NPM packages are spam

50% of new NPM packages are spam (blog.sandworm.dev)

417 points by miohtama 3 years ago | 277 comments

Sandworm blog post reporting that roughly half of newly published npm packages are SEO spam, illustrated with a Futurama meme.

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#seo-spam on Hacker News

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them(trellner.com)

Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT(danluu.com)

50% of new NPM packages are spam(blog.sandworm.dev)

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them (trellner.com)

Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT (danluu.com)

50% of new NPM packages are spam (blog.sandworm.dev)