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Web of Limits

The world wide web, as it is known, is barely worldwide anymore, and certainly not wide, or deep.  It has been slowly brought down to limited resources.  At one time a search for something like auction would have brought back lots of results, now it shows two or three main results, and everything else is gone, for the most part.  Sure there are still thousands of results, and if you dig deep enough through the results you will actually find something different.  For all intents and purposes, there are very few results.  Why is this, how did this happen? Is this because of some search engine tricks, or their policies?  Is it because of paid search results?  A Google search returns 987,000 auction results.  That seems like a lot, but is it really.  How many people actually notice the stuff on the bottom shelf at the grocery store?  Below the fold, beyond the first page, who goes there?  If you have to scroll the page.  Scrolling...