Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Now, none of this is particularly sophisticated. It doesn't take much discernment to ...
Now, none of this is particularly sophisticated. It doesn't take much discernment to spot when a site is engaged in "site reputation abuse." Presumably, the 12,000 googlers the company fired last year could have been employed to check the top review keyword results manually every couple of days and permaban any site caught cheating this way.
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