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I've basically never been taken to a recipe without a rambling preamble from Google. While food blogs may serve two audiences, a long introduction seems to be a

• WorldMaker 5y ago
  Personally, I think that has a lot more to do with the fact that Google killed the Recipe Databases. There did used to be a few startups that tried to be Recipe Aggregators with advertising based business models, that would show recipes and then link to source blogs and/or cookbooks, and in the brief period where they existed Google scraped them entirely and showed entire recipes on search results and ate their ad revenue out from under them.
  • tomrod 5y ago
    That is a really bad thing by Google. Their core business is not recipes.
    • kwertyoowiyop 5y ago
      Their core business is making money from other people’s content, no matter what it is.
      • WorldMaker 5y ago
        Their core business is advertising and they have always been in a direct conflict-of-interest by competing with content sites for ad revenue buys.
  • dspillett 5y ago
    Such databases would get battered by demands to remove content these days, if not already back then. No one want a database listing their stuff for ad revenue like that because many wouldn't follow the links so see their adverts or be subject to their tracking. A couple of browser add-ons specifically geared around trimming recipe pages down have been taken down due to similar complaints.