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Interestingly, someone built a recipe app with this narrative and received a ton of backlash online: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56241653 https://www.bb

Interestingly, someone built a recipe app with this narrative and received a ton of backlash online: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56241653 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56241653

cacois 5y ago
I love how they say the content that users dislike is "relevant to the recipe", rather than admitting its SEO fodder.
- madamelic 5y ago
  It's actually not SEO fodder (necessarily). Recipes are not copyrightable but if you pair a recipe with a story, the entire deliverable is copyrightable [0] because the recipe becomes a work of expression rather than a rote list. > In other words, a bare recipe, without literary expression, is not copyrightable [0]: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3741a5c0-f146-40ab-8f74-21427cd3b673#:~:text=In%20other%20words%2C%20a%20bare,literary%20expression%2C%20is%20not%20copyrightable.&text=Under%20Publications%2C%20the%20list%20of,of%20any%20protectable%20expressive%20element https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3741a5c0-f146....
  - cacois 5y ago
    Interesting point, I hadn't considered this.
- boringg 5y ago
  I don't think its SEO fodder I think its to space out the page so you have to scroll through multiple advertisements so they get their revenue. Either way its total garbage.
  - davestephens 5y ago
    Yeah. Screw those guys trying to make a living!
    - lelandbatey 5y ago
      I mean, yeah trying to make a living by annoying the snot out of people is a thing that people don't like. It's the "business-model-belle of the ball" at the moment, but that doesn't mean we folks subjected to it have to like it, nor is it somehow "morally wrong" to object to being inconvenienced. You can try to diminish the real-world confusion and inconvenience of said business model by saying "cmon, it's not that bad, what's the big deal, why not let them make some money, why you gotta be such a stick in the mud?" That does nothing to reduce my or other peoples annoyance and lost time caused by said business model though. It's real, it does waste my time, and your time, and everyone else's time, it does inconvenience us, and it does make it harder to get the information we want. Because of that, I'm glad to see these other websites arrive to replace blogspam recipe mills. I plan to use websites like http://www.cookingforengineers.com http://www.cookingforengineers.com and https://stovetop.app/ https://stovetop.app/ search for most all my recipes going forward. Thanks OP for stovetop and thanks to other commenters here for posting more resources for us to use.

Interestingly, someone built a recipe app with this narrative and received a ton of backlash online: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56241653 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56241653

cacois 5y ago

I love how they say the content that users dislike is "relevant to the recipe", rather than admitting its SEO fodder.

madamelic 5y ago
It's actually not SEO fodder (necessarily). Recipes are not copyrightable but if you pair a recipe with a story, the entire deliverable is copyrightable [0] because the recipe becomes a work of expression rather than a rote list. > In other words, a bare recipe, without literary expression, is not copyrightable [0]: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3741a5c0-f146-40ab-8f74-21427cd3b673#:~:text=In%20other%20words%2C%20a%20bare,literary%20expression%2C%20is%20not%20copyrightable.&text=Under%20Publications%2C%20the%20list%20of,of%20any%20protectable%20expressive%20element https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3741a5c0-f146....
- cacois 5y ago
  Interesting point, I hadn't considered this.
boringg 5y ago
I don't think its SEO fodder I think its to space out the page so you have to scroll through multiple advertisements so they get their revenue. Either way its total garbage.
- davestephens 5y ago
  Yeah. Screw those guys trying to make a living!
  - lelandbatey 5y ago
    I mean, yeah trying to make a living by annoying the snot out of people is a thing that people don't like. It's the "business-model-belle of the ball" at the moment, but that doesn't mean we folks subjected to it have to like it, nor is it somehow "morally wrong" to object to being inconvenienced. You can try to diminish the real-world confusion and inconvenience of said business model by saying "cmon, it's not that bad, what's the big deal, why not let them make some money, why you gotta be such a stick in the mud?" That does nothing to reduce my or other peoples annoyance and lost time caused by said business model though. It's real, it does waste my time, and your time, and everyone else's time, it does inconvenience us, and it does make it harder to get the information we want. Because of that, I'm glad to see these other websites arrive to replace blogspam recipe mills. I plan to use websites like http://www.cookingforengineers.com http://www.cookingforengineers.com and https://stovetop.app/ https://stovetop.app/ search for most all my recipes going forward. Thanks OP for stovetop and thanks to other commenters here for posting more resources for us to use.