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If Google had done nothing but try to preserve page rank through the AI onslaught, could that have even worked?
I'm not sure. Page rank worked best with honest pages. As soon as someone wanted to convey the same information that was out there, but with higher page rank, it started to go downhill
John Socks
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2026-02-23 13:32:34 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…hmr0
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