Looks like I’m spoiled for choice. Temu has exactly the same for 11.29. Not that I’d be purchasing from either place; it’s just another example of Amazon’s enshittification.

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    In 2008 you could do a web search and have relevant real results

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bombing

    Google had (mostly) solved this problem by 2007. I couldn’t name another search engine that could claim the same.

    But the process of Spamdexing has been an ongoing war of the websites since the nineties. Google never fully solved it, they just did a better job than most up until the big executive shift in 2018.

    The spam site takeover of your search results in the modern day is as much a consequence of modernization in Spamdexing as it is any search engine’s own failures. None of those AI content mill sites existed to index 20 years ago