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I think that clearly something needs to be done though I don't know what. Something has to give. Search engines are absolutely a parasitic business, for the me
by malwarebytess 6y ago
I think that clearly something needs to be done though I don't know what. Something has to give.
Search engines are absolutely a parasitic business, for the mere fact that they could not exist without the content they scrape, index, and serve to users. It would be permissible if Google didn't make a profit by doing these things, but they do. So--something needs to be rebalanced. Either search needs to be a public service, non-profit, or there needs to be a profit sharing or some new licensing scheme or law that the content owners are subject to.
- splaytreemap 6y agoIt's the exact opposite of parasitic. Search engines scrape your site so that they can help users find your site. If you don't want Google scraping your content, add a noindex directive or robots.txt to your site and Google won't scrape it or link to it.
- malwarebytess 6y agoAt best it is symbiotic. But the imbalance in power makes it parasitic as Google will absolutely leverage its power to make sure they receive the most out of the arrangement. I think parasite fits better since the content creator can exist without google, but google cannot exist without the content creator.