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		DocTomoe 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Declaring War on the Web Nobody is stopping you from publishing on the net. Nobody is stopping you from blocking bot traffic. You don't need search engines - you can just link between sites or have webrings. Like we used to, pre-2000. Nobody is stopping you from not using ads on the net. Nobody can force you to use non-essential cookies (and thus: a cookie-banner). Imagine there was a war going on, and no-one was showing up.

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jfengel 4 days ago [–]

I don't think people much liked the pre-search-engine era. They used lousy search engines when they became available, and when a good one started they liked it so much that they verbed its name.

imp0cat 4 days ago | [–]

It is definitely an opportunity for a lot of stuff (ie. curated RSS feeds and other forms of discovery) to come back.

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