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by dragonwriter 806 days ago
> Except that’s exactly how the web is supposed to work and the reason Google was able to build a giant search business in the first place.

No, because whether or not that's how the web is supposed (by whom?) to work, it is not how it did in fact work when Google built that business, in fact, it's farther from how it worked in the period Google was building a giant search business than it is now.