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by patmcguire 4718 days ago
Can we discuss why mugshots.com is still the top result? Their main pitch is:

UNPUBLISHING SERVICE FROM

THE MUGSHOTS.COM DATABASE

HOURS OF OPERATION: 7AM -11PM EST

Which seems to be extortion. If they were a group of people deeply concerned about convicts in their midsts that would be a different issue, but they seem to be running a "pay us and we'll go away" business model, which it seems reasonable to beliebe the search engines should punish in the same way they do content farms.