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Because most articles don't trigger the same responses.

It is the outrageuos and the radical that trigger the interest.

Have you not noticed that the links on the side of all the trash blogs are full of "The craziest snake!" or whatever?

Which clickbait works better - "Hitler loved his black maid" or "cheap diapers"? Does that really mean that more people are searching for Hitler's black maid than for cheap diapers?



So in your opinion why isn't "Hitler loved his black maid" the top result for every search query?




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