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by fantomsurfer 6088 days ago
The search engines are the parasites. They are making billions of $$$ using other people content.
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Without search engines how would you find that content?
I don't say that they are useless. Point is that they are crawling the content, wasting bandwidth without paying for it.

The engines make the big money, not the webmasters.

I think the issue is not so much that they exist, the issue is that they profit greatly from content created by others without paying said others a single penny.