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idontwantthis on Oct 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: What if performance advertising is just an analyti...

SEO has ruined search. It's so hard to find a website that isn't trying to sell you something. I tried searching for an explanation of an aspect of astigmatism correction and I couldn't get anything but thinly veiled ads for optometrists and glasses companies, and no in depth explanation of the detail I wanted explained.

tpetry on Oct 14, 2021 [–]

The worst is searching for (honest) reviews of bloggers e.g. describing theor experience with some SaaS or comparing some.

The results are filled with those scummy compare sites comparing e.g. a DBaaS to e.g. mailchimp. They are not even the same type of product!

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