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Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts

• tornato7 3y ago
  People mention LLMs as a reason for these services locking down their content but they also miss an even bigger free-rider on their information, which is the snippet provided by Google at the top of the search page. Websites don't appreciate when they're denied a click because Google copy and pasted a snippet of what the user needed.
  • LinuxBender 3y ago
    In theory they can avoid that using the robots "nosnippet" Google, Bing and "noarchive" Google, Yahoo, Bing. [1] <meta name="robots" content="noarchive,nosnippet"> [1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/meta/name https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/me...
  • DamonHD 3y ago
    This assumes that sites exist entirely to drive clicks to monetise, and maybe that there is some stand-alone right for that business model to exist universally. In some (many?) cases (including mine) sites are interested in getting information out there as efficiently as possible. If a search engine can save the searcher a click and the host some load, then that is often fine.
• deleted 3y ago
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