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by phreeza 3262 days ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22When+you+combine+the+technical+...

Seems to be at least some sort of copy and paste going on...

edit: This is so bizarre, one of the sites has a section with editor "bios" but they read like some sort of very poor odesk/fiverr profiles, wouldn't be surprised if thats what they are...

https://nystocknews.com/our-staff/

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This line from those "bios" caught my attention:

I’d affection to help you with your written work, altering and substance needs!

...because I mentally "autocorrected" the latter half to "and mind-altering substance needs"... Looks like they used a "thesauriser" on it. Not hard to see love->affection, editing->altering, and content->substance.

Of course, if you are under the influence of a mind-altering substance, you would probably not notice anything wrong with that page. ...and unfortunately, so would many people who aren't.

Ha, and the "de-thesaurised" version of that phrase is indeed from this upwork profile!

https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/_~012388b8f7c8ed8aa2...

The whole thing is full of rehashed phrases:

(link to google for "A deeper exploration of the setup is sure to yield a clear picture"):

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22A+deeper+exploration+of+t...

Craziness. Auto-generated soup to farm SEO?