IOW you could replace everything useful & legitimate Google does (indexing/search) with a single iPhone + moderately large external storage.https://twitter.com/justincormack/status/1008518299792142336 …
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Replying to @RichFelker
Dunning Kruger alert: for an internet with <1% the size of the modern one at maybe 30% coverage, english-only, no maps, no video...
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Replying to @landley
Even 100 iPhones is still just one bigass box or a single rack of reasonable ones. And modern Google doesn't seem to even index 1% of content, but happily indexes loads of SEO spam.
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Replying to @RichFelker
Spammers trying to game search engines are Google's fault, and the fix to email spam problem is to go back to sendmail on a 386...
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Replying to @landley
SEO spam is largely Google's fault. It goes back to a conscious choice to refuse to moderate, insistence on trusting that a universal scoring algorithm could work against active attackers.
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Replying to @RichFelker @landley
If they had a "if we catch bad-faith action to boost pagerank, you and everyone affiliated will be delisted forever" policy, it wouldn't have happened.
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Because nobody would ever hack a site to do 5 minutes of SEO to get a competitor removed forever. Clearly not gameable...
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This is not "5 minutes of SEO". It's sites whose only purpose is junk content. Started out with WP, SO, etc. scrapes. Now it's more advanced. It's not stuff you can quietly frame a competitor for.
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