How Google traffic turned an AI spam blog into a click machine

TS2 Space, a Polish satellite internet provider, has published at least 336,260 AI-written blog posts since February 2023. The site drew up to 13.5 million hits in November 2023, with Google Search, News, Discover and Google Ads central to the story.

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How Google traffic turned an AI spam blog into a click machine

A corporate blog from Polish company TS2 Space shows how quickly AI-generated publishing can become a major traffic engine. What began as a company blog tied to satellite internet has expanded into a vast, multilingual stream of posts across technology, travel, consumer products and other broad topics.

The case matters because the traffic does not appear to be coming from obscure corners of the web. According to the source article, Google Search, Google News, Google Discover and Google Ads are all part of the system that helps this kind of publishing reach large audiences and earn money.

From satellite internet to mass publishing

TS2 Space is described as a Polish provider of satellite-based internet, mainly for American and Polish soldiers. Its blog originally fit that business context. Early posts dated back to September 2019 and were handwritten pieces about the company's products and services.

That changed after a quiet stretch. Another post appeared in 2022, and then the AI-driven publishing wave began in February 2023. Since then, the company has published at least 336,260 AI-written blog articles in several languages, including English, Italian, German and Danish.

The topic range also widened far beyond satellite communications. The blog first focused on related subjects such as satellite phones, but later moved into areas including climate zones, new cars, the latest smartphones, model kits and city tours.

That shift is important. A corporate blog usually supports a company's expertise, products or customer needs. In this case, the source article describes a move from focused business content to an extremely broad publishing operation designed to capture attention across many search interests.

How the content appears to be made

The articles are described as AI-written, and every article includes an AI-generated image. This happens even when an original image is available, as with the Pixel 8.

The source article notes that the factual details in the Pixel 8 article were correct, even though the Google smartphone had not been released by the end of the ChatGPT training period in April 2023. That is presented as a sign that TS2 Space is not only creating text from scratch, but also using existing sources and rewriting them.

Many posts appear under the name of Marcin Frąckiewicz, the founder and CEO of TS2 Space. Other author profiles on the blog may be AI-generated personas. The source article says at least the author images are AI-generated, unlike Frąckiewicz's portrait image, and that the prompt used for generation remains in the filename.

Frąckiewicz describes himself as a "renowned author and blogger, specializing in satellite communication and artificial intelligence". His profile also refers to "insightful articles" that "delve into the intricacies of these fields, offering readers a deep understanding of complex technological concepts" and are "known for its clarity and thoroughness."

Google's role in the traffic surge

The central issue is distribution. According to Similarweb, ts2.space had up to 13.5 million hits in November 2023. The source article says that is more traffic than many small- and medium-sized publishers with several full-time editors can generate.

Google Search is one part of the picture. The article also says Google is likely sending large amounts of traffic through News and especially Discover. The blog itself came to the source publication's attention through Google Discover.

That gives the case a wider significance than one company's publishing choices. Google acts as a major gateway to online attention. When its systems surface AI spam at scale, traffic flows toward automated content and away from other publishers competing for the same readers.

The problem is not only visibility. TS2 Space now places ads on its pages, which the source article describes as atypical for corporate blogs. That suggests the blog may have shifted from marketing activity into a direct advertising business model.

Why ads change the incentive

Advertising makes the loop more powerful. The service is funded by advertising from Google, according to the source article. That means Google may help send traffic to the site and then earn money from ads placed on those pages.

This creates a clear incentive structure:

  • AI tools make it possible to produce very large numbers of posts.
  • Broad topics create more chances to appear in search, News or Discover.
  • Traffic creates ad impressions.
  • Ad revenue can make further mass publishing more attractive.

In that setup, the specific company is not the only concern. The source article argues that many similar sites exist and that Google has not brought the pattern under control for months.

For readers, the risk is a web where generic AI material becomes easier to encounter than work from relevant content providers. For publishers, the risk is that human-edited work competes not only with other publications, but with automated blogs that can produce posts at a pace no newsroom can match.

The open web problem

TS2 Space can choose how it promotes itself or whether it wants to make money from ads. The deeper question is what large discovery platforms reward.

If Google Search, News and Discover direct major attention to AI spam sites, those systems help shape what readers see as useful or trustworthy. The source article frames Google as a gatekeeper of the open Internet, with a special responsibility because of how much traffic and attention it controls.

The case of TS2 Space shows the practical stakes. A company blog that once published occasional business-related posts became a large-scale AI content operation with millions of hits. Google traffic and Google advertising helped make that model visible, viable and difficult for traditional publishers to ignore.