The Death Knell of Digital Search (newyorker.com)

13 points by bookofjoe an hour ago

2 comments:

by apercu 2 minutes ago

I remember in around 2011 realizing that ~85% of the first page of Google search results was ads. I haven’t used Google search much in the last 5 years, mostly due to this but also because of how they rewarded blog spam.

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