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Google’s new ranking systems are designed to stop spam, SEO, and other manipulative tactics

Google’s new ranking systems are designed to stop spam, SEO, and other manipulative tactics

Google is rolling out a few new changes to its ranking systems in search, which are designed to help surface good content in your results and hide some of the worst and most cynical stuff on the web. The company says that it is doing a better job of downranking content that exists only to summarize other content — which can sometimes be normal SEO stuff but is also increasingly a job for generative AI tools — and in combatting some of the tricks people use to trick its ranking systems.

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