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In theory websites could kill off googles dominance by blacklisting their crawler and only caring about traffic from DDG and other lesser known engines
by suifbwish 7y ago
In theory websites could kill off googles dominance by blacklisting their crawler and only caring about traffic from DDG and other lesser known engines
- rstupek 7y agoand probably kill themselves off the internet at the same time
- suifbwish 7y agoIf enough websites did it, google would become just a giant resolver for corporate content that everyone already knows about. It would effectively fork the internet into google and non google. We just need a few search engines that can compete of quality.
- incompatible 7y agoI think that they are more likely to do the reverse: ban bots but add an exception for Google.