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Re:Almost all searches on my independent search engine are n... by pjmlp on Monday May 16, 2022 @08:28AM (#31396148)
And the cycle will reboot itself again.

The silos we have nowadays were there before the Internet took off, on BBS, Compuserve, Geocities, ....

Apparently the majority of regular humans likes to have centralized providers they can reach out to, instead of the freadom of decentralized content.

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Re:Almost all searches on my independent search engine are n... by jacquesm on Monday May 16, 2022 @10:22AM (#31397701)
Yes, that's true. Bots tend to follow the money.
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