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Linus Torvalds @torvalds 10 hours ago

I’m clearly a master of SEO.

When I google for “cold dark place filled with sadness and despair” right now (with the quotes), google gives me exactly one result - my Linux kernel github repository.

I will call my new hobby “Reverse Emo Googlewhacking”.

You’re welcome.

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Instead of the Internet consisting of 5 giant websites filled with screenshots of the other 4, I guess this is a win? A Lemmy post on the fediverse consisting of a screenshot of a Akkoma fediverse post?

Linus’ anger management looks to be working out for him - that’s four sentences in a row without any fucks in them. Keep on keeping it chill, big man.

It’s still the 4th web result on Google as of 10am EDT on July 10.

Hm, when I google this, I get Edgar Allen Poe’s the Raven.

duckduckgo gives me no results at all for “cold dark place filled with sadness and despair”. So I guess it’s either a more hopeful search engine . . . or just respecting the quotes properly. ;)