On: The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

[wingworks]

I really don't like how easy it is to fake a "new" article on Google. You can just re-publish an old article and stick a new date on it and Googles takes it on face value and uses the new date.

[sellyme → wingworks]

You can also do the opposite: post something today and say it was up on your site in 2003.

Makes it really difficult to find old pages about something that recently exploded in popularity, because the age filter just doesn't work.

[BigJono → wingworks]

I ran into this for the first time yesterday when trying to find out new info about a footy player. Some article from 15 years ago talking about how he had a good first game, tagged as 5th june 2021. Like, wtf?

[lethologica → BigJono]

I have been seeing this a lot recently too. Especially with the first result or two. Or the section up top that gives you a partial answer without having to click through. All of them always seem to have been freshly written like some made to order meal at a restaurant. It’s just too suspicious really.