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   john larkin to Ghloucester   
   Re: Common sense   
   27 Jan 26 14:48:25   
   
   From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:43:50 -0000 (UTC), Nioclás Pól Caileán de   
   Ghloucester  wrote:   
      
   >Theo  wrote:   
   >|---------------------------------------------------------------------|   
   >|"[. . .]                                                             |   
   >|[. . .]  You                                                         |   
   >|get a thousand pages of search results but only the first handful are|   
   >|actually related to your search."                                    |   
   >|---------------------------------------------------------------------|   
   >   
   >(Google repeatedly changes how it works so the following might not   
   >still apply. I performed this experiment before the Year 2019.) I used   
   >Google for a search. Google boasted that it found thousands of   
   >results, but after I went through hundreds thereof (i.e. a small   
   >proportion of these boasted thousands), Google showed me a note that   
   >it refuses to list most of these search hits. This note was   
   >accompanied by the absence of the Next button arrow icon at the bottom   
   >right.   
   >(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)   
      
   Google prioritizes the hits that they are paid to prioritize.   
      
      
   John Larkin   
   Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center   
   Lunatic Fringe Electronics   
      
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