SEO Veteran Draws Parallel Between AI Search Spam and Google Replacing AltaVista
lilyraynyc · x · 2026-09-16
Well-known SEO practitioner Lily Ray notes that when Google launched, spammers disliked how much harder it was to game than its predecessor AltaVista — suggesting history is repeating itself in the AI search era.
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