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One could argue that if a "business" is only providing one sentence answers to questions then it's not really a business in the first place. The owner seemed t
by mattm 9y ago
One could argue that if a "business" is only providing one sentence answers to questions then it's not really a business in the first place.
The owner seemed to have found a very small gap and it was closed shortly after.
- tchaffee 9y agoGoogle is profiting off those one sentence answers. If it's enough of a business for Google, I suppose it's enough of a business for the people doing the actual work to find the answers.
- mcintyre1994 9y agoAre they actually though - in the immediate term? Sure they show ads on the search result, but there's a box with the answer to your query, why would you click an ad? It seems like the reason it's good for Google is because it's the perfect response to the query and it cements Google as the search engine that can answer my questions. Are they directly profiting from those queries or are they just making themselves a better search engine, and indirectly profiting from that? If the latter I find it hard to argue against them.
- tchaffee 9y agoIf they are stealing the data in order to make themselves a better search engine, I find that pretty easy to argue against. Someone did work that provides value and Google is taking that data and making it look like their own.
- AznHisoka 9y agoNobody needs to argue anything. just block google in your robots.txt if you are unhappy. case closed.
- tchaffee 9y agoWhat sites need is a happy medium. For Google to index the site, but to not use that same data to eliminate the need for a visit to the site. Content has value. If Google is grabbing that content and using it on their own site, that's a problem.