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Today I tried finding a rather popular product I used recently, which I had forgotten the name. I had to search THREE TIMES before finding it:

First search (“products that do X”) got me a bunch of those comparisons sites, none of them containing the one I was trying to find

Second search (“ycombinator startup that does X”) got me a page of spam, but at least I found the product name

Third search (company name) got me an ENTIRE PAGE of ads and SEO optimized pages before the actual link to the actual product




Yep, this aligns with my experience!




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