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MilesMcBain

@jimbob this is it. I feel like the younger generations will laugh and pat us on the head when we say this, but I SWEAR you used to be able to solve problems like this using the internet.

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Mark Newton

@milesmcbain @jimbob You still can, you just click the third link instead of the first link.

Bela Lugosi's Dad

@NewtonMark @milesmcbain well I made it to the second page, this time, before I found something written by an actual human being who has touched a Thing

pmcneil, nerd at large

@jimbob @NewtonMark @milesmcbain I keep thinking when I fix a thing that I should write a blog about it, but who would find it?

Chris [list of emoji]

@milesmcbain @jimbob

This all worked up until 5-7 years ago. SEO spam has always been there but it's like Google management decided one day to just stop fighting it.

Mage Moss (trying it on)

@suetanvil @milesmcbain @jimbob “stopped fighting” about 15 years ago, started really actively encouraging about 10 years ago, and we just saw the tidal wave devastation of “search” as a function in the last 5 years or so with millions of entire sites created by algorithm, every one of them funneling money to Google via ads.

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