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I've had such requests too. We had a system that returned query results in a few ms, and people rated it as untrustworthy, not valuable, etc etc.

We added a fancy "computing... thinking... validating..." interstitial, and suddenly everyone loved it.

It was literally just an animated gif with a meta refresh redirect.



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