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Why is person-to-person knowledge being replaced with company-to-person?

I recall in the 90’s and 00’s being able to google anything and find an answer on a forum or Yahoo Answers. Now all that is last and all google queries return spam sites with bad answers and tons of ads.

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Google came up with pagerank, that made developers do one of two things - ignore it or start SEO-ing their websites. Over the years, the original sites were replaced with SEO enhanced sites, which are often salads of links and keywords.

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