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Nail on the head.

The web is a swamp of hot garbage, in large part thanks to Google SEO incentives.

If Google hadn't poisoned the well, and if searching pulled up good content instead of ads designed to look like search results, and search results that link to web pages that take 5 screenfuls to convey one sentence of information, they wouldn't be looking down the barrel at an existential threat.




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