keyword stuffing
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of keyword stuffing
First recorded in 1995–2000
Example Sentences
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To succeed in these increasingly common AI video assessments, candidates should rehearse their responses, avoid keyword stuffing and try not to act like robots themselves, writes Ray A. Smith.
“You want to use relevant industry terminology naturally, but don’t game it by just keyword stuffing,” says Keith Wolf, managing partner at recruiting firm Murray Resources, adding that “most AI systems are smart enough to detect when someone is being overly robotic.”
“On search, our AI features rely on our core search ranking systems that have been honed for years against activity like keyword stuffing,” says a Google spokesman.
"It's almost the same as with exams at school - you learn to answer the question to get the marks. In the same way people are keyword stuffing their CVs to get past AI screeners, they'll be keyword stuffing those AI screening calls. There'll be people on TikTok talking about how to hack your way through a first round AI interview," Ms Miller predicts.
From BBC
The term sometimes brings to mind old-school SEO techniques like keyword stuffing or including hidden text on a page as a way of ranking.
From Forbes
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