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I honestly get why AI summaries on top of search results are useful. Why click through 10 links that might have the answers you’re looking for when a direct answer to your question is available? But ...

When online search engines first appeared, they seemed miraculous. Now, though? It is a truth near-universally acknowledged that search is in the dumps, corroded by spam and ads. Big players like ...

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