On: Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots

[hammock]

Makes me wonder whether Google tolerates bots on its search engine, to boost its ads revenue.

See also Twitter's extraordinary claim that 5% or less of its users are bots (or a claim from Twitter's detractors that up to 90% of its DAU are bots)

[exyi → hammock]

I don't think it does, I get a ~~middle finger~~ recaptcha every time I try google something