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<old fart hat on> Note that the article is crying about the poor small businesses that google killed. Not about the good old days when you could find unbiased

• p3rls 2y ago
  You are making distinctions without a difference -- those same geocities admins (like myself) are now the creators of many of these small business websites and webapps that have been being held hostage for years by a malevolent corporation bent on destroying the last few decent websites left on the internet. And then when you complain about this monopoly that controls 90% of the west's internet, and 99% of it when you include Microsoft's collusion you are met with the alums from Harvard Business School "Well maybe you should have thought about that before basing your business on Google traffic" Oh, but that is incorrect, actually what I should have done is send over a few bribes to some struggling entertainment writers like my competitors did. You can check my other comments in this thread for more on that. In an actual just world, (not to immanentize the eschaton that was the early internet but) you'd think so many old farts wearing hats still around that actually remember what the internet was supposed to do and be like that all the Google Search liaisons would have been tarred and feathered years ago by now.
  • nottorp 2y ago
    > what the internet was supposed to do Oh no, I'm whining about an even earlier period when the info online was done without commercial gain (small company or Google) in mind and way more trustable :)