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"PyTorch and TensorFlow are far and away the two most popular Deep Learning frameworks today. The debate over whether PyTorch or TensorFlow is superior is a longstanding point of contentious debate, with each camp having its share of fervent supporters.

Both PyTorch and TensorFlow..."

Can an article really be any good if it starts off with such obvious SEO spam?

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> Can an article really be any good if it starts off with such obvious SEO spam?

That's an interesting take. I fail to see how such mentions, in an article that compares two things and, thus, mentions both things together, are in any way SEO spam?

For example, in an article comparing apples and oranges I would expect to see a rather high number of mentions of "apples and oranges". After all, that is the topic.

It's SEO for the OP site. The parent comment is saying the words TF and PyTorch are repeated exhaustively, I think sometimes senselessly, throughout the entire article. It doesn't mean the content is not of value.

That may be the topic but that first sentence reads like they are aiming to have a high number of mentions not a quality of content. For instance you can replace the second and third mentions of “PyTorch and Tensorflow” with something like “the two” or “they both.”

This is keyword stuffing, a very old SEO technique which is obsolete. In fact such behavior works against you these days.

Though I agree with you it's annoying, you gotta hate the game not the player. It's Google's fault for valuing things like this in its search results. All the author is doing is trying to get seen. I'd say that if they have to irk a few people like us to get themselves higher on search results, they'd probably judge it as a good trade-off.

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