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Is Google Dying? Or Did the Web Grow Up? - The Atlantic

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One of the most-used tools on the internet is not what it used to be.

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. A few weeks ago my house had a septic-tank emergency, which is as awful as it sounds. As unspeakable things began to burble up from my shower drain, I did what any smartphone-dependent person would: I frantically Googled something along the lines of poop coming from shower drain bad what to do . I was met with a slew of cookie-cutter websites, most of which appeared hastily generated and were choked with enough repe

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