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maybe the problem is that google allows the quick indexing of all content produced on the web, including pirated content, and then uses a very opaque algorithm

maybe the problem is that google allows the quick indexing of all content produced on the web, including pirated content, and then uses a very opaque algorithm to guide users to sites. This has the externality of making ad-funded content easily available. Not very many people are going to pay for something when you can get the exact same thing for free somewhere else, and in a global marketplace it makes sense for someone to plagiarize paid content and reproduce it for ad-revenue alone. $20/day won't support me in California, but in India? Removing Google and Facebook changes the game entirely. They have such a strangle hold on the way the internet operates financially--by utilizing their deep integration with users' usage of the web to feed them highly targeted ads--that alternate usage models can't compete.

ucaetano 8y ago
> Not very many people are going to pay for something when you can get the exact same thing for free somewhere else, and in a global marketplace it makes sense for someone to plagiarize paid content and reproduce it for ad-revenue alone. $20/day won't support me in California, but in India? Exactly, content became a near-worthless commodity. > Removing Google and Facebook changes the game entirely. No, it doesn't. But it seems that what you're suggesting is that ad-funded business models should be outlawed, is that it?
- BRAlNlAC 8y ago
  I think that the same people who do search and who do blogging shouldn't be allowed to leverage that data to sell ads. It's unethical. I also think that Google and any indexing service should be held accountable for linking to pirated content. I don't fully understand the way Google sells ads on a marketplace, but I think that Google is guilty of being unsavory in their behavior as the premier online advertisement market place and search giant. I don't think that ad-funding a business should be illegal, I just don't think that advertising should be as valuable as it is when the biggest data horders on the web are the ones doing the advertising.
- mudil 8y ago
  You have no idea about the content, but you think you do. Somehow, current deals for Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox are in the billions. And so is value of News Corp, CBS, AIC and so on. Why do you think you can proclaim the near worthlessness of the content or that people don't want my content? Because you are an opinionated nobody? What do you know?
  - ucaetano 8y ago
    I'm not proclaiming anything in particular about your content, but you don't seem to be able to fund anyone willing to pay for it.

ucaetano 8y ago

> Not very many people are going to pay for something when you can get the exact same thing for free somewhere else, and in a global marketplace it makes sense for someone to plagiarize paid content and reproduce it for ad-revenue alone. $20/day won't support me in California, but in India? Exactly, content became a near-worthless commodity. > Removing Google and Facebook changes the game entirely. No, it doesn't. But it seems that what you're suggesting is that ad-funded business models should be outlawed, is that it?

BRAlNlAC 8y ago
I think that the same people who do search and who do blogging shouldn't be allowed to leverage that data to sell ads. It's unethical. I also think that Google and any indexing service should be held accountable for linking to pirated content. I don't fully understand the way Google sells ads on a marketplace, but I think that Google is guilty of being unsavory in their behavior as the premier online advertisement market place and search giant. I don't think that ad-funding a business should be illegal, I just don't think that advertising should be as valuable as it is when the biggest data horders on the web are the ones doing the advertising.
mudil 8y ago
You have no idea about the content, but you think you do. Somehow, current deals for Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox are in the billions. And so is value of News Corp, CBS, AIC and so on. Why do you think you can proclaim the near worthlessness of the content or that people don't want my content? Because you are an opinionated nobody? What do you know?
- ucaetano 8y ago
  I'm not proclaiming anything in particular about your content, but you don't seem to be able to fund anyone willing to pay for it.