alt Hacker NewsIt seemed to me that pre-llm, google had stopped surfacing stackoverflow answers in search results.
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eigenspace • last Saturday at 11:30 PM
Because nobody was clicking on them
It seemed to me that pre-llm, google had stopped surfacing stackoverflow answers in search results.
Because nobody was clicking on them
My memory is there were a spate of SO scraping sites that google would surface above SO and google just would not zap.
It would have been super trivial to fix but google didn’t.
My pet theory was that google were getting doubleclick revenue from the scrapers so had incentives to let them scrape and to promote them in search results.