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[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

SEO was bad enough when people were doing it, now we have bots doing the SEO then immediately being used to page rank.

It's a fucking mess. I hope they don't get rid of query operators.

Basically every simple search is camped by ai summary sites now