Do you remember those autogenerated websites that were just giant lists of all words? Those disappeared many years ago, but if you made search ranking random, they'd come right back.
Google has the ability to change the face of the internet in 2-3 years. They can detect the chaff and shut it down, and I wonder whether it’s an anti-competiton feature that they require that websites write a thousand words per page.
I did this after simply wanting to know how much powdered sugar to put in whipped cream and getting frustrated at trying to scroll through 3 blogs just to find the ingredient list for something so simple. Eventually I just asked ChatGPT.
I wonder if Google can start running an LLM on websites to judge them on things like that. Hell, looking for a photographer in your area? Have it judge how good the photography is on each website. The possibilities are there but I don’t know if they’ll bother.
Still many copy/paste sites around. Crawl data, put a skin on top, publish on stolen domain to make it legit, clickfarm away!