SEO
An AI-Generated Content Empire Is Spreading Fake Celebrity Images on Google
A ring of websites using AI and run by an aspiring movie star are behind fake celebrity images featured in Google results, Motherboard found.
Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck
"These workers provide critical support that keeps Google’s flagship Search results and Bard AI safe and functional for the company’s billions of users," the union representing the contractors said.
Whatever Happened to AltaVista, Our First Good Search Engine
Why you can’t find the groundbreaking search engine AltaVista on the web anymore. Friends don’t let friends visit Digital.com without knowing the truth.
This ‘Search Engine Artist’ Tricked Google Into Displaying Her Art
When you typed in ‘The Next American President’.
How Link-Begging Became the Most Annoying Search Engine Tactic
Businesses want to show up on the front page of a specific search term, and they’re willing to annoy you to get a backlink from you. Please never do this.
Please Stop Trying to Pay Me to Advertise Fake iOS Jailbreak Websites
An internet marketing firm asked me to promote a series of fake iOS jailbreak sites, including ones for jailbreaks that don't actually exist.
The North Face Secretly Vandalized Wikipedia to Improve its Google Search Ranking
It was a not-so-clever ploy to insert North Face products into Wikipedia articles of famous tourist destinations.
Google’s Own Email Filters Flag Google’s Party Invite as Malicious
A cybersecurity reporter says his own Google-provided email app flagged an email about a Google party because it included content “typically used to steal personal information.”
Scammers Threaten to Review Bomb a Travel Company Unless it Pays Ransom
Twitter bots, fake reviews, and Instagram comments are the tools of a black hat SEO extortion attempt.
You Probably Shouldn’t Forge a Judge’s Signature to Solve Your SEO Problems
A jewelry company CEO was arrested on Monday and charged with forging court orders in order to de-index negative reviews on Google.
Floridians Hack Google to Display Poetry by Inmates in Miami
As part of the O, Miami Poetry Festival, South Florida residents are altering Google’s autocomplete by typing in one-line poems penned by incarcerated people in Miami.
Automation Is Coming for SEO Content Farmers
How four twenty-somethings in Ohio built a neural network that outperforms offshore content mills.