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other hand, if they don't push companies to do things like this, single-visit webpages like lyrics and recipes inevitably become ad-infested, SEO-driven trash

The opposite may also be true. If Google sent visitors to these sites instead of displaying their content without compensation, the sites wouldn't be so desperate to extract every last penny out of the reduced number of people who click through to them.



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