> "For us these would, essentially, still fall into the category of automatically generated content which is something we’ve had in the Webmaster Guidelines since almost the beginning.
> And people have been automatically generating content in lots of different ways. And for us, if you’re using machine learning tools to generate your content, it’s essentially the same as if you’re just shuffling words around, or looking up synonyms, or doing the translation tricks that people used to do. Those kind of things.
> My suspicion is maybe the quality of content is a little bit better than the really old school tools, but for us it’s still automatically generated content, and that means for us it’s still against the Webmaster Guidelines. So we would consider that to be spam."
So are people reacting thinking this is a new policy or...?
I think it's difficult to marry this policy with the other stuff Google is claiming to be dramatically transformational. If Google came out and said "Hey, this self-driving stuff isn't really dissimilar from traditional driving assist." there would be some questions to answer. Which of course, is what the regulators actually say.
Those examples seem highly different? Waymo can and does pick you up and take you where you need to go in SF and Austin, with no one behind the wheel. I'm not aware of any traditional driver assist package that's capable of even approaching that.
> And people have been automatically generating content in lots of different ways. And for us, if you’re using machine learning tools to generate your content, it’s essentially the same as if you’re just shuffling words around, or looking up synonyms, or doing the translation tricks that people used to do. Those kind of things.
> My suspicion is maybe the quality of content is a little bit better than the really old school tools, but for us it’s still automatically generated content, and that means for us it’s still against the Webmaster Guidelines. So we would consider that to be spam."
So are people reacting thinking this is a new policy or...?