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Maybe Google needs to take the final step in this evolution. Let's have Google show nothing but quick answers, nothing but their own info boxes etc. No search
by zentiggr 6y ago
Maybe Google needs to take the final step in this evolution.
Let's have Google show nothing but quick answers, nothing but their own info boxes etc.
No search results, nothing external.
That way, anyone looking for any other results HAS to leave Google in order to find anything.
And Google can pander to the percentage of people who honestly don't know or care that there's a web.
Are there enough of us who would avoid Google if we knew 100% that we would never see a reference to anywhere outside of their own properties?
- thatguy0900 6y agoTheir info boxes are all scraped from other sites, would they still be able to legally scrape sites and display them like that without giving any links to actually follow?
- untoreh 6y agothe data that google shows from websites is provided by websites as structured markup, websites started providing this with the expectation that it would provide better ranking. Nowadays, however, google could probably just render the same thing thorugh nlp without any additional hints from the sourced pages
- ricardo81 6y agoNot all of it is structured. I've seen numerous examples where the structure is inferred from HTML markup, i.e. not so structured. I get your point about structured data laying it out on a plate, so to speak.
- ricardo81 6y agoFor example https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20190716/109793/HHRG-116-JU05-20190716-SD015.pdf https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20190716/109793/HHRG...