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by marginalia_nu 745 days ago
Almost certainly. Internet search is above all a problem of improving the signal to noise ratio.

There's an inordinate amount of documents that will never be a good search result for any query. Both in trivial cases that have barely anything to index in them, but also sign-up forms, cookie policies, redundant information (e.g. any given man page exists in dozens if not hundreds of identical copies on the web).

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> cookie policies

Unless you're specifically searching for other websites' cookie policies (e.g. to understand how they work, or to do research on them, or just to plainly copy them...)