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Re:Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in ... by matheusmoreira on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:04PM (#28932374)
> I continued to be baffled why such blatant spam can consistently make it into top results

Same here. It's like they don't even care anymore. The results are just there to hold your interest so they can show some keyword ads along with them.

I wish people would start maintaining curated web directories again.

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Re:Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in ... by handrous on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:41PM (#28933550)
Google clearly gave up on fighting spam some time around '08 or '09.

I think they realized it's expensive, and not actually good for business if the spammy stuff is using your own ads and/or analytics anyway.

This is why almost all of the web looks like a shady spam-site if you don't have Adblock enabled. Google doesn't give a shit anymore.

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Re:Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in ... by matheusmoreira on Thursday October 21, 2021 @05:23AM (#28942180)
Seems that way. Yet another reason not to feel any guilt when using uBlock Origin.
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