For anybody who has tried to make a website or create a blog in the hopes of earning revenue from it, one of the first few things that you would probably find when you search for tips on how to make money online from a blog would be to do SEO, or search engine optimization. Twenty or thirty years ago, it was quite a newfangled thing, something that only very clever people could do, those who have the wits to outsmart the algorithm. Nowadays, it’s all over the place, with millions of websites being created every year, and with the goal of getting your pages ranked the highest on the Google search results. And there have been many complaints about information being inaccurate or downright false popping up on Google’s search results. Who’s fault is that? Google itself or perhaps the SEO wizards who found the means of profiteering from the algorithms?
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I recently read a Quora article about the supposed real-life inspiration of the movie Shrek. I was almost convinced about the story until I read the comments saying that it was a complete lie. Sure enough, when I looked it up myself, there was no basis for the claim. The commenter also mentioned that it was just an AI-generated answer. Which brings us to our situation nowadays, where AI can simply write something up based on a prompt or a criteria by the user, and out comes a whole article about it. And the SEO experts at that alligator party know just how chaotic the internet will become because of it.
Amanda Chicago Lewis of The Verge spoke to many of those SEO experts at that alligator party in Florida and though she somewhat despised the profession as much as any person who loathed what the internet has become, she found them endearing and not exactly the stereotype that she was made to believe. She details her experience being at that alligator party as well as the people she met on her article.
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