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It's their own damn fault for letting the algorithm have spammy/fake websites ride to the top of the search while legit sites are on the bottom. If you look for a product you get a full page or 2 of "bestVacuum.com" type of sites that are just paid sites pretending that they are reviewers.
If you are having issues with removed/blocked reddit solutions you can check the cache in the google search but some sections don't have them.
The problem is that Lemmy is not immune to this. Even Reddit was vulnerable, just not in the traditional ways.
If Lemmy grows to that level, we will 100% have a problem with SEO bots, fake reviews, etc. We are already seeing a problem with a particularly toxic instance, instances hosting potentially and widely illegal content, along with enormous and problematic walled gardens. (Names withheld because that's not the point here)
I can only hope that as the codebase and community mature, we can address these issues before they become catastrophic.