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by derefr 721 days ago
Given the 15 year gap between the events and this post about them, I'm pretty sure OP isn't still angry. They likely were just working on a search engine, and this old story came to mind, and they realized that it'd be perfect clickbait (maybe rage-bait?) to serve as lead-gen for the search-engine project.

(Remember, someone building a search-engine is likely very, very familiar with SEO.)

1 comments

Spot on
Thanks for the honesty about this being click-bait content marketing, I guess.