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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (13 children)

Those are put there for SEO purposes. Google favors sites with these big stories. The copyright issue alone doesn't justify what's there; you could do a quick blurb of a few sentences and it would be enough. Plenty of cookbooks do that.

This is why a lot of those sites have a button that says "skip to recipe". It's a bunch of text that's meant to be for robots, not you, and they really don't care if you read it.

Now that it's being created by LLMs, we may have the first known example of human language written by robots and intended for robots. Welcome to a cyberpunk dystopia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

So why not put the recipe first, and the bullshit after?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Search engines favor text earlier in the site. Text "above the fold" (the area where you wouldn't have to scroll to see it) is scored higher.

https://www.pedalo.co.uk/seo-experiment-text-position-keyword-rankings/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Ahh, that explains it then. Cheers!

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