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		bsder on Nov 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DOJ proposal would require Google to divest from A... > Those opaque tweaks that tank your business are the same ones that keep spam and SEO garbage down. Um, except that they don't? We had entire articles detailing how "Forbes" dominates search rankings with SEO garbage. Keeping SEO garbage down appears to be very straightforward. It's just incompatible with an ad-driven business model.

NBJack on Nov 23, 2024 [–]

Not a good example anymore: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/google-cracks-down-o...

bsder on Nov 24, 2024 | [–]

And those results contaminated Google for almost 5 years before Google got enough bad press that they finally had to do something.

Yeah, Google is a monopoly.

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