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> adds nothing new, and basically just there to pollute search engine results in the hope of self-promotion.

The web is big, messy and free (as in free speech), there is not a corpus of carefully written articles trying to extend human knowledge or something. It’s search engine fault for letting SEO (which feels like Spam Engine Optimization) pouring and making it into the index of supposedly relevant information based on your query.



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