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Consumers win in this scenario.
by avocado4 7y ago
Consumers win in this scenario.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoDo they really though? See my comments on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20688022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20688022 Essentially, if Google's data source isn't getting paid, the data source is not going to remain accurate, and hence, neither will Google.
- Nasrudith 7y agoI don't see the relationship either way between payment and accuracy. Paying people is no guarantee of accuracy in either direction. Heck paying people for it encourages putting any ole bullshit there to farm it.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoWebsites which have gone out of business cannot provide Google updated data.
- blacksmith_tb 7y agoWe do, though the counterargument is that sites that currently publish content like that will have no incentive to keep doing it. If that proves true, presumably in long run you won't be able to get good answers to similar questions, which I suppose could force Google to create their own content, a sort of search-engine version of Netflix and Amazon's move into film-making.