content farm

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content farm (plural content farms)

  1. (Internet) A website that contains low-quality, search-engine optimized writing, which may be aggregated from elsewhere.
    Synonym: content mill
    Coordinate terms: link farm, paper mill
    • 2014, Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
      Just as content farms are engineered to game search engines, an increasing number of sites are designed to game social networks.

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