About why search results are flooded with SEO spam and auto-generated pages.
Has this happened?
Yes 90 (77%)Not sure 13 (11%)No 14 (12%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About why search results are flooded with SEO spam and auto-generated pages.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I read auto-generated pages almost to the end before realizing it was SEO spam. (I am not a native English speaker though)
With content copying, shuffling and AI generating, I am afraid we are on the cusp of auto content generators passing some restricted Turing test where readers really think it's an actual human that wrote it.
As for me, I leant that for certain "hot topics", simply doing a generic search on Google is not a good idea anymore.