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Forbes is like a for-profit Wikipedia. Impossible to not see a Forbes result after when you do a google search. I think I saw a Forbes result when looking up some obscure string theory query. They are everywhere now. Like a kudzu. Their gateway pages are annoying, and I'm surprised they don't run afoul of Google's SEO guidelines.

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I pretty much never see forbes links unless I am on HN, and usually go "Oh how quaint."

I most cases I would assume that you have a google search history that is influencing these results and thinks you like forbes, hah.

I have the same experience - I seldom encounter Forbes in search results. I wish I could say the same about w3schools, or whatever it's called.

Indeed: they serve Google different pages than ordinary visitors. When I set my user agent string to "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) " suddenly forbes.com doesn't object to my adblocker anymore.

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