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		notdrunkatall on Dec 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Destroys Rap Genius’ Search Result Rankings... >what did companies do before there was Google? They didn't.

sliverstorm on Dec 25, 2013 [–]

They advertised.

Smaller companies seem to be replacing the "advertising dept." with "our rank on Google dept.", in which case it's not exactly Google's fault they are dependent on Google, any more than when a Craigslist scraper is dependent on Craigslist.

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