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by eyelidlessness 1610 days ago
What I find fascinating is I’ve seen a small, but increasing, subset of results where:

- the result title is clearly not original, usually derived from content on the page

- the original title is known to be generated

- the original generated title is as close to harmless as any web content could be

- the result title is actively harmful and misleading

- the original title is demonstrably better

- this idiosyncrasy is applied to very high trust hosts (eg GitHub)

- it’s not applied to the same content from obvious scraped content/spam/scam sites with obvious tells