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Worth noting that many times, the complaint is that the query is answered by an infobox... and the info in that box is provided by a website... and that website

Worth noting that many times, the complaint is that the query is answered by an infobox... and the info in that box is provided by a website... and that website is the one complaining about a lack of clicks, because now people just use Google's scraped answers instead of actually visiting the site. It seems valid to complain that Google is profiting off of a site while simultaneously harming that site's visibility.

marcus_holmes 5y ago
> It seems valid to complain that Google is profiting off of a site while simultaneously harming that site's visibility. I don't understand how Google is "harming the site's visibility" - it still gets some traffic free of charge from Google, right? If Google didn't list the site in the first place, it would be less visible and get less traffic. So I don't understand how Google is harming the site's visibility? Why does Google have an implied responsibility to send all possible traffic to a site it lists?