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I know I’m being idiot on this as always but nor I’m sure why this isn’t said more often: Web search, and by extension Google Search, is a hostile document organization and search system.

Its principle is 1) there is a collection of “stolen Soviet documents”, or the web crawl, 2) obscured slice of meaningful data hidden in it that relates mutually by a $CODEWORD, and 3) “hostile” interest in it from a “spy” overhearing it, that the search engine can then work on to compile into a collection to present.

Whatever that answers a question given it is not a search, it’s something different.



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