{"id":118414,"date":"2024-10-26T02:10:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T19:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118414"},"modified":"2024-10-26T02:10:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T19:10:46","slug":"annoyed-redditors-tanking-google-search-results-illustrates-perils-of-ai-scrapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118414","title":{"rendered":"Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Fed up Londoners<\/h2>\n<p>Apparently, some London residents are getting fed up with social media influencers whose reviews make long lines of tourists at their favorite restaurants, sometimes just for the likes. Christian Calgie, a reporter for London-based news publication Daily Express, pointed out this trend on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/christiancalgie\/status\/1849356874073669787?s=46\">X<\/a> yesterday, noting the boom of Redditors referring people to Angus Steakhouse, a chain restaurant, to combat it.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/redditors-are-trying-to-poison-googles-ai-to-keep-tourists-out-of-the-good-restaurants-2000516156\">Gizmodo<\/a> deduced, the trend seemed to start on the r\/London subreddit, where a user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/london\/comments\/1g8jdfv\/black_pig_in_borough_market_has_been_ruined_by\/\">complained<\/a> about a spot in Borough Market being \u201cruined by influencers\u201d on Monday:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last 2 times I have been there has been a queue of over 200 people, and the ones with the food are just doing the selfie shit for their [I]nsta[gram] pages and then throwing most of the food away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, the post has 4,900 upvotes and numerous responses suggesting that Redditors talk about how good Angus Steakhouse is so that Google picks up on it. Commenters quickly understood the assignment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Agreed with other posters Angus steakhouse is absolutely top tier and tourists shoyldnt [sic] miss out on it,\u201d one Redditor wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Another Reddit user wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As of this writing, asking Google for the best steak, steakhouse, or steak sandwich in London (or similar) isn&#8217;t generating an AI Overview result for me. But when I searched for the best steak sandwich in London, the top result is from Reddit, including a thread from four days ago titled \u201cWhich Angus Steakhouse do you recommend for their steak sandwich?\u201d and one from two days ago titled \u201cHad to see what all the hype was about, best steak sandwich I\u2019ve ever had!\u201d with a picture of an Angus Steakhouse.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2024\/10\/fake-restaurant-tips-on-reddit-a-reminder-of-google-ai-overviews-inherent-flaws\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fed up Londoners Apparently, some London residents are getting fed up with social media influencers whose reviews make long lines of tourists at their favorite restaurants, sometimes just for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118414\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8630],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}