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by bennycha 585 days ago
I always assumed something like ChatGPT is artificially boosted by Google... do they really have people doing SEO?
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8n4vidtmkvmk 585 days ago
Why would Google artificially boost it? They're competing. They shouldn't give it any special treatment whatsoever
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ein0p 585 days ago
Are they? Have you tried Gemini lately? They might be competing on the services side, but the only two peer competitors in the chatbot space are Anthropic and OpenAI.
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8n4vidtmkvmk 584 days ago
They do have a chat ui. It's not as robust afaik, but I don't see why they can't expand on it. It would be a nice addition to their storage/Google one offering
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j0hnyl 585 days ago
Are you suggesting that chatgpt is as popular as it is because it's propped up by google in the serps?
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hanspeter 585 days ago
I think they're suggesting that highly popular sites like ChatGPT get a ranking boost beyond regular page rank, making SEO efforts unnecessary.

But I don’t think that’s the case, at least not artificially. These sites tend to rise naturally in search rankings because they have a huge volume of links and media coverage. Which still makes SEO efforts unnecessary.

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