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google isn't the cesspool, people who want to appear at the top of a list of search results are doing whatever it takes to create a cesspool, because that's what it takes to earn more money.

being willing to make other things in order to have more money always creates cesspools.



Google’s mission was “organize the world’s information and make it useful” and they are doing a poorer job now than historically.

Of course there are scammers, that’s part of what makes organizing so hard.

Cynically, I think that Google is worse as filtering scammers is because they care less now. Half the page is ads so they make money either way.


Google is a cesspool because it’s their job to fix it and they failed. I stopped using Google search because of how far it’s fallen.


If its the only way to make money, it doesn't really feel like the burden is on the people to make a cleaner pool


there is never only a single way to make money. some ways are easier. some ways let you take advantage of others; these are of the variety that create cesspools.




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