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People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays (lemm.ee)

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[–] Ensign_Crab 199 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"We've ignored all the meaningful terms you were searching for. Now here's a bunch of pinterest and quora spam."

[–] Darkard 62 points 1 year ago

"hey, is that a brand name? Here's 9 sketchy looking shopping sites selling things that have that brand name on them"

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I installed the extension that removes Pinterest from searches.... it's great.

[–] ohlaph 18 points 1 year ago

Those two sites are absolute skid marks.