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When idealists start making money...
- No. When rapacious capitalist goons pretend to believe in stuff.
“portal litter” needs a comeback
What is this criticizing, exactly? The Google homepage is still incredibly spare.
- What is this criticizing, exactly?
  
  Have a think.
  
  The blurb is still accurate -- the homepage has no weather, no news, no sponsored links, etc. Google the company does advertising, but the search engine page itself is still really minimalist. I think a lot of people forget (or never knew) how incredibly cluttered and ugly search engines used to be:
  
  https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/uploaded/preview/excite-1996-preview.png
  
  https://c8.alamy.com/comp/TRRJR0/lycos-is-a-search-engine-that-was-popular-in-the-1990s-TRRJR0.jpg
  
  https://sm.mashable.com/mashable_me/image/default/uploads252fcard252fimage252f1530168252fe88d0a82-60be-4830-83_1u6w.png
People who don't understand that things change when something changes.
- Oh, we all understand. We're just lamenting that the Internet has changed so much for the worse.
  
  It's only going to get worse with the government and police trying to create a surveillance state for risk management.
  
  And almost only for the worse.

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