alt Hacker NewsLet me let you in on a little industry "secret"
You can't trust those results no matter what
The pages that they pull in to source that data all contain affiliate links and companies contact websites to get their tools to the tops of those lists by paying money often monthly. I know this because I do this...
It's basically standard SEO but it also manipulates AI like ChatGPT very very easily
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faangguyindia • today at 11:08 AM
Simplest way to do is by running affiliate program for your SaaS and shady marketers will do everything to get sales if it's profitable.
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nunez • today at 2:38 PM
The cheat code for that used to be Reddit before they got growth-hacked 10+ years ago.
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> It's basically standard SEO but it also manipulates AI like ChatGPT very very easily
There are key differences.
1) Google doesn't get paid for the SEO, so even is crime is involved, Google isn't directly responsible.
2) AI ads are unmarked, which is illegal pretty much everywhere. And because of the way LLMs work, it is impossible to tell where a given output came from, neither which part of the prompt/context nor whether it's from the prompt or training.