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Inside the first 'SEO heist' of the AI era (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • Over the last year, website Exceljet was the victim of an AI-powered "SEO heist."
  • A provocative online marketer used AI to clone thousands of Exceljet's articles for a competitor.
  • The plot shows how generative AI is transforming the web, and posing thorny questions for Google.
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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Google: "Our search results are better than ever!"

also Google: "Publicly pointing out how you gamed our search results will result in us manually deleting your site from our results. Also, nothing to see here."

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

They are better than ever... for Google. They have never been more profitable.