"content farm" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: content farms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} content farm (plural content farms)
  1. (Internet) A website that contains low-quality, search-engine optimized writing, which may be aggregated from elsewhere. Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Internet Synonyms: content mill Translations (website which contains low-quality SEO writing): 內容農場 (Chinese Mandarin), 内容农场 (nèiróng nóngchǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), sisältöfarmi (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-content_farm-en-noun-HHvjlAAc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for content farm meaning in English (2.0kB)

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          "ref": "2014, Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company",
          "text": "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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      "sense": "website which contains low-quality SEO writing",
      "word": "內容農場"
    },
    {
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