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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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If you encountered a search box in the wild, it was almost certainly wired into Google's servers. They knew that there was approximately *zero* chance that you'd ever stumble upon another search engine, which meant they could make their own search as shitty as they wanted and keep your business.
2026-09-05T08:55:08.410Z