The store is for people, but the storefront is for robots
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Selling real things to real people means writing a steady stream of nonsense text that only web crawlers will ever read.
  • Gourd@kbin.social
    12·
    2 years ago

    The most baffling thing modern search engines do, especially DuckDuckGo, is a page of search results in they inevitably throw in some unrelated results involving my location as looked up by my IP.

    I’m not sure why when looking for old Sega console stuff it wants me to know about plumbers in what it thinks my city is, but it’s sure dedicated to me finding out! :facepalm:

    • zurohki@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      It makes me smile a little when I get ads for restaurants in the suburb in a completely different city where my ISP has its registered business address.