When searching for other subjects, I came across this page by accident, and it sure is interesting. gHacks, a once strong and mighty website, got hit really hard by some changes that Google made. Pretty soon, they were slipping from the page rankings, they were getting less traffic, ads were bringing less revenue, and it all over became difficult to keep things running. No longer could they have paid writers, or definitely not nearly as many of them. All of this, hinging around the random popularity trends that the Google search engine brought. Except for the fact that the Google search engine itself remained popular nonetheless, and some of the big and monopolous sites became ever more popular.
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