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It’s easy to be mad at Facebook, newspapers, Pinterest, Discord, etc. for locking the internet away behind a login or paywall. But it’s also the result of Goog
by nostromo 3y ago
It’s easy to be mad at Facebook, newspapers, Pinterest, Discord, etc. for locking the internet away behind a login or paywall. But it’s also the result of Google capturing all the value from the free internet.
The end result is companies trying to capture more of that value for themselves and not letting Google eat their lunch, which required moving content and communities behind closed doors.
- Andrex 3y agoGoogle didn't invent the idea of a web crawler or search engine. Because of how the web was designed, I think it was always an inevitability that the internet would start open but trend closed.
- _Algernon_ 3y agoYou could say that google started it. They ate everyone's lunch by including what people were looking for in a box at the top of the search results. Of course sites will respond in kind.
- robertlagrant 3y agoThey were better than the incumbents. The incumbents allowed people to buy search ranking.
- dgroshev 3y agoGoogle now does effectively the same with their in-search ads. Most of the time the entire space above the fold is just ads.
- robertlagrant 3y agoAgree it's not great, but it's not as bad as silently reordering the actual search results.