Google News Poisons Its Own Index With More Slopfarms (Including "filmogaz")
Recently we discovered that Linuxiac became a slopfarm again (we had received a tip about this). This happened around the same time the site was enrolled into Google News with its slop [1, 2]? Did Google deem it unworthy of inclusion until it resorted to slop?
Today we can see more slopfarms added to Google News: filmogaz.com is the most obvious one!
This is very typical slop based on the text and structure:
Looks like low-grade plagiarism, maybe based on Phoronix (not many sites do benchmarks and see below... notice the screenshots):
Also consider this plagiarism:
Or based on many articles about GOG:
Covered in another notorious slopfarm:
The campaign to end slopfarms won't end overnight, but by calling out the culprits we can get there. Naming and shaming lazy slobs who rip off other people using LLMs can work, eventually. Their "SEO" is 100% reliant on spamming Google's indexes. Google needs to delist those, but Google has a conflict of interest because Google too is a slop pusher. █