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zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on June 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software ...

Practically, you can't, because Google has a quasi-monopoly on attention.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

brokenmachine on June 22, 2016 [–]

My point was that it is misleading to say that Google is "stealing" content because they are only indexing pages that don't opt-out of being indexed.

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