By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026 In other words, Google *could* deliver good search results, they just choose not to: pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/t... 36/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Too big to care (04 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1928
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026Gresham's Law says "bad money drives out good." It refers to a counterfeit crisis in Tudor England, where people preferentially spent counterfeit coins (to make them someone else's problem); meanwhile, everyone hoarded their good coins. Soon, virtually all the money in circulation was bogus. 37/ 29910
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026By downranking quality material in favor of low-effort spam, Google set up a web-wide version of Gresham's Law, where bad webpages drive out good ones. 38/ 1889
Thomas aka OtakuboyT @otakuboyt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Better than my apology. "What Amazon cheaply rewrote every book, and sold it's copies at a huge discount" 000
