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What would happen if I blocked big search? · Pros and cons of blocking major search engines https://ilo.im/163yb3
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Luke's Wild Website · What would happen if I blocked big search?The major search engines are showing slop summaries first and websites second. They link to sites sometimes, but they’d much prefer searchers stay on the results page and ask followup questions. Engagement numbers and all that.
These companies run mass content scraping campaigns to train their own slop models and provide servers to other slop companies in the same data centers their crawlers operate from. Every word I’ve thrown into this illustrious publication—the reading of which a total of five people have, at various times, expressed mild enjoyment—has been both silently and explicitly declared fair game by the slop companies. The only positive thing I can egotistically hope to grasp about this development is that a distant and diluted abstraction of my words and thoughts could be subtly influencing the thoughts and decisions of people around the world—the same way a pinch of salt would affect the flavor profile of a large vat at the soup factory, or like the breeze under the wings of chaos theory’s cute and frighteningly powerful butterfly mascot.
