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Cut back messy search pages to fewer, cleaner ones that AI search can use
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What they did
Because AI and search engines need well-structured information and the existing content is messy, the team is reducing what it published before and making the rest more productive. Guest's view: quality over quantity, and real sources like Wikipedia and Reddit will matter more than the number of landing pages.
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- Scale (mature)
In their words
Top Founders with Nathan Latka · This Ugly Website Does $106M/Year (866,000 Pay For It)“AI requires a very well-structured information. We throw a lot of stuff out there, and it's not exactly clean. It's pretty messy. So, now we're going to a process of reducing what we have before and making it more productive.”
“And it doesn't matter how many landing pages we have. It's the quality versus quantity now. That's the name of the game.”
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