Comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7

"Because it's still out there, we just have to find it."

With search engines operated by advertising companies, or companies that profit from advertising. there is an incentive to actively prevent discovery and hide what is not profitable.

Search "too fast" on Google and draw a ban. Even when this is public information being searched; it does not belong to Google.

Facilitating discovery by web users is against Big Tech interests.

Big Tech will do the "discovery"; relax and consume what is presented. Want to go deep into results. Not so fast.

According to Big Tech, what's actually online is not your business. Only what Big Tech wants to show you matters.

What's actually online beyond this might be mostly garbage,^1 but the public is actively prevented from discovering that fact.

At least, they won't discover it via Big Tech intermediation.

Maybe it's not all garbage. But how would anyone know. The advertising company sits in the middle, controlling what can and cannot be discovered.

1. Not advertising garbage but another kind that has no utility for advertising.

Don't believe me. Read some zone files, starting with the com.zone. There are milllions of websites that have become all but impossible to discover via Big Tech intermediation of the web.