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I wonder why Google is so bad at picking up that these pages are clickfarms, and not instead return the original when searching.

In my native language (norwegian), I have lately had issues with searching for stuff, opening the page linked by google, to quickly realise it's not even legible norwegian, just auto-generated content (google translate of some product review I guess?). Absolutely useless content, no idea why it ranks so high. How can they not manage to filter out stuff like this?



> I wonder why Google is so bad at picking up that these pages are clickfarms, and not instead return the original when searching.

They have a monopoly on search, why do they care?


Good point. So if Bing started getting better at detecting duplicate articles and keeping track of duplicates per domain and ranked them lower that would be a big improvement over Google. Doesn't sound hard to do it you've got search engine size resources.




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