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Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee... by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Monday June 20, 2016 @04:28AM (#11936772)
Practically, you can't, because Google has a quasi-monopoly on attention.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

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Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee... by brokenmachine on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @07:37PM (#11957899)
My point was that it is misleading to say that Google is "stealing" content because they are only indexing pages that don't opt-out of being indexed.
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