“Google will do the Googling for you,” the company explained. [More]
Despite producing more and more, I’ve seen my hit shrink down to 20% of what they were four years ago, and that was already down by half. I wonder how obscure this new GIGO gatekeeper will render my stuff.
Remember the old punch line?
“Two plus two, sir? How much did you want it to be?”
As long as they “control the vertical and the horizontal,” they can control your reported hits and make them whatever they want them to be, regardless of what you write or how many people drop by the site to read your words.
“Your weakness is not your technique.” — Morpheus in “The Matrix”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhrNgXJ__n8
So the ones who already control what you get shown when you search, now also want to control what you search?
With respect to Pynchon: If they’re asking the questions for you, then they REALLY don’t have to worry about the answers!