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You've stumbled on what's known as "google eating itself" problem. This has been well known for a while now: https://www.gwei.org/index.php

Seems to me here it's only Google and the AI website real authors making money with our attention. Can only work in the short term though

It can work longer than you realize. Most of the internet is SEO spam sponsored by ads from the google ad network.