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by netsharc 2093 days ago
No.

What good is a search engine if it doesn't try to point you in a direction where there's a result (even if that direction has a wall (door) that requires payment.

Well, in the ideal world they would show any matching results their crawler saw, but Google already censors a lot of legitimate results, because of local laws.

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Maybe it should be something like search results are presented under two tabs, walled and free, and free is the default selected tab. And the tabs are at the bottom of the page, so you have to scroll all the way down.