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		Spooky23 on June 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO sc... I don’t think Google is the cesspool, I think Google is a search engine for an internet that is the cesspool. We’re moving to the vision of information services that were pioneered by AOL, Prodigy, etc. Honestly, we’re there already.

eyelidlessness on June 8, 2021 [–]

We were already there when Google was the hot thing all the nerds loved. At the time their search was a way to cut through that, not the primary window into it. The cesspool isn’t Google, now it’s just hosted by them.

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