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Ran into this gem today:

https://files.catbox.moe/bvrd6u.jpg

> Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine — no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter.

> Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit.



LOL, I didn't know they ran newspaper ads for Google. I love old images of the Google search engine. When I was a kid, I taught other kids how to use the "cache" button next to links. Then Google buried the cache button three clicks under before completely removing it, and Googlers said, "Well, nobody was using it." MBA's doing user-driven development, "As a user (child), I don't know what a cache is." and the legal department being like, "Yup less shit to DMCA."

Google is the modern-day Yellow Pages; kill some trees and slam that rainwater-soaked stack of ads on my porch. I won't say no to free, but how many hoops did we go through to end up back here?


That's not an ad, that was a highlighted blurb in a tech magazine from way back when.


Ah, the joys of crafting an illegal monopoly, systematically abusing the society that built you up, routinely breaking laws and defying judges.

Enables you to become exactly what you got successful for NOT being. Must be great.

/s


Now only the people in majority need to realize this, and perhaps we can have a somewhat saner web again.


Kinda where AI is today.




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