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I felt sad reading the whole thing. I searched "will smith net worth" and after wikipedia snippet, the first result was celebrity net worth. CNW depends on goo
by system2 6y ago
I felt sad reading the whole thing. I searched "will smith net worth" and after wikipedia snippet, the first result was celebrity net worth.
CNW depends on google, uses them to make money. Google is a search tool and wants to show whatever results makes users happy. CNW can simply remove itself from the platform and tell google never to use their data. It almost sounds like CNW is trying to bite the hand of only company made them something. I feel bad for CNW but this is natural. I've seen many of my and my clients' sites go rock bottom because of google updates.
"Google Stole My Business" sounds harsh. More like "google doesn't do what I want them to do." CNW was nothing before google. Maybe CNW could make technical changes to their content the way wallpaper/graphics sites made changes after google image search updates.
- huffmsa 6y ago"Google Takes My Data and Presents It as Their Own" a better title for you?
- system2 6y agoNo of course not. My point is that google will change things as they did in the past. The way google snippet works is simple, they scan the data and sum it up. I searched multiple results right now. "bill gates net worth" data was taken from Wikipedia and CNW didn't even exist on the first page. "Beyonce net worth" showed a detailed snippet for businessinsider, and second link was CNW. Same for Eminem, 210M from groovewallet, and second result was CNW. I just couldn't find what CNW is complaining about.
- huffmsa 6y agoAnd the wikipedia page cites https://www.forbes.com/profile/bill-gates/?list=billionaires#46f7f1c3689f https://www.forbes.com/profile/bill-gates/?list=billionaires... As the source for Bill Gates' net worth. Why can a free, community edited website successfully attribute it's sources but a trillion dollar company cannot?
- system2 6y agoCan you or anyone show me an example? I searched over ten celebrities and only found CNW as either 2nd or 3rd result. All snippets were giving full details to the sites.
- huffmsa 6y agoCNW's statement was about 2012 to the present. The damage is done. I distinctly remember even recently that Google wouldn't provide attribution in the snippet. Though now, it sure seems like the #1 results for most of my "{celebrity} net worth" queries are AMP (AKA Google approved™) pages.
- thih9 6y ago> the way wallpaper/graphics sites made changes after google image search updates. I’m not familiar, this sounds interesting. Could you elaborate?