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How Google is killing independent sites like ours::And why you shouldn’t trust product reviews from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google.

  • CatTrickery@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    It is worth noting that marketing companies have picked up on this and they will often create oddly specific questions on Reddit then answer them with a bought account.

    • SomeGuy69@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Yeah there are multiple ways. Nevertheless it’s public, so people can vote on stuff and reply when the response is bullshit. That’s why I think visible downvotes are very important. If you have an answer botted to be on spot one of the replies but it has like 200% the downvotes, it’s possible that there’s something fishy going on and one can evaluate. That’s not possible if you can’t see this addition info and only the sum of votes.