Poisoned Google SERPs

20 pointsposted a day ago
by armcat

7 Comments

vgeek

a day ago

Is it poisoned or are they simply taking more drastic steps to maximize their earnings per mille given that user behavior for many of their most lucrative terms is likely shifting towards LLM conversations? With less search diversity, there may be higher ad CTRs, plus higher organic search traffic/visibility will typically lead brands to spend more on paid clicks as the free clicks are correlated/subsidize the paid spend.

warpspin

15 hours ago

Been out of the SEO game for a while, but the industry has always been pretty hysterical and has been seeing broad patterns in what often are only minor fluctuations or tests.

ablation

17 hours ago

Claudeslopped site design and information layout makes me dubious of the information conveyed.

bigwheels

a day ago

Is this the first time Google has engaged in this kind poisoning activity?

CodesInChaos

11 hours ago

It's not clear to me if this is actually poisoning, or just some kind of A/B test. Especially since all the "normal" results are SEO slop.