Google Responds To The Verge Mocking Its Search Rankings For Best Printer

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2024-04-17 08:00:06

Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of the Verge posted a new article with the intent to both rank for [best printer] in Google Search, as well as mock Google for how he can game Google's search rankings using AI-generated content, while throwing in some affiliate links. Google's John Mueller responded saying, "People seem to really enjoy it."

I will say, Nilay wrote a fun and enjoyable piece, you can read it here, if you haven't already but I assume most of you have already seen it by now.

It’s been over a year since I last told you to just buy a Brother laser printer, and that article has fallen down the list of Google search results because I haven’t spent my time loading it up with fake updates every so often to gain the attention of the Google search robot.

He then rants about how "an entire ecosystem of content farms seems motivated to constantly update articles about printers in response to the incentive structure created by that robot’s obvious preferences. Pointing out that incentive structure and the culture that’s developed around it seems to make a lot of people mad, which is also interesting!" Yep, the whole thing about how SEOs and Google ruined the internet...