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📅 01 November 2026 at 04:30 AM UTC
Ask HN: Has Google started cleaning their search results from AI slop?
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Hey everyone, I'm maintaining a couple personal pet projects and I've recently noticed in google search console that on both projects impressions and clicks went from 500-700 impressions / 10-15 clicks daily to almost zero in one day. First I thought that I broke something (e.g. added noindex by mistake or so), but everything was good and content was good, fresh and up to date. I went researching and it turned out Google changed their anti-spam policy and dropped A LOT of links from their index around Oct 26 or so. From what I see is that they're trying to remove a lot of fake abusive AI-generated content from their index. I also had some nice insights and help in google community regarding my problem and they mentioned that they're cleaning stuff. In general I think it's not so bad to fig
Publication Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318869
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