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asgerhb on April 24, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter (2018)

This is only applicable if these businesses spend $0 on SEO. If they want to clog up the top results, then I reserve the right to complain about them.

boplicity on April 24, 2023 [–]

Google could very easily populate search results with mainly non-commercial websites. However, they are very strongly incentivized to support commercial websites; I believe this explains why they don't generally penalize popups and similar things.

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