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31 pointsjoelanman7 comments

I used the page title as per the guidance, but clearly its not very helpful. This is actually an important piece about Google search:

> It’s been over a year since I last told you to just buy a Brother laser printer, and that article has fallen down the list of Google search results because I haven’t spent my time loading it up with fake updates every so often to gain the attention of the Google search robot.

> It’s weird because the correct answer to the query “what is the best printer” has not changed, but an entire ecosystem of content farms seems motivated to constantly update articles about printers in response to the incentive structure created by that robot’s obvious preferences. Pointing out that incentive structure and the culture that’s developed around it seems to make a lot of people mad, which is also interesting!

It's a weird article! I kinda enjoy the "malicious compliance" style of writing.

> Here’s what Google Gemini had to say when I asked it about Brother laser printers, which is not worth reading but which is by definition an incredible example of experience, expertise, authority, and trustworthiness because Google is synthesizing the entire web for this information, right? Isn’t that the whole idea of these LLMs, or are we just kind of fooling ourselves

There's some good recommendations on reddit too

https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/18hp0nr/im_absolu...

Brother is almost universally loved, unfortunately they seem to be starting to play the HP subscription game.

I keep seeing this repeated in a “I heard someone who heard someone” sort of way, but don’t see anything saying that they’re actually moving to a subscription model (even in that Reddit thread). The only subscription I see for them is an optional ink program which is fair if people want to sign up for it.

> my only ask is that you make this article go viral by sharing it in faux-outrage that the EIC of The Verge has published an article partially generated by AI, because after the buttons I am going to include a bunch of AI-generated copy from Google’s Gemini in order to pad this thing out.

I appreciate the transparency.

I love this article. I bought a colour Brother laser printer about fifteen years ago and with only a couple of tiny niggles, it's been rock solid all that time. Every other printer manufacturer is awful, so everything about this article is perfect.

I use an $80 refurbished B&W HP laser printer... pretty happy with it

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