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People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays (lemm.ee)
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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Literally every person in this subthread who said something positive about Kagi is very clearly just a normal user who has recently posted things completely unrelated to it, judging by their history.

Yes, this is exactly how it works. This behavior is well documented.

Not saying 100% all these users are astroturfing accounts, but I'm just pointing out this looks like it

[–] stankmut@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's tough, because people also like to recommend things they like. If a friend in real life told you about the new CastX® Iron Extreme™ cast iron skillet that they got and how they love its rich iron flavor, you would just think they just like their new pan.