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> They systematically took these audiences away and then charge a price to get the audiences to return. How exactly does the existence of search take audiences
by vkou 3y ago
> They systematically took these audiences away and then charge a price to get the audiences to return.
How exactly does the existence of search take audiences away?
Or do you mean the 15-word clickbait headline blurb takes audiences away? If your news story isn't worth reading after reading the headline, it's probably not worth reading.
- jay_kyburz 3y agoGoogle thinks its worth including in the index.
- falcor84 3y agoWhat kind of argument is that? Google's mission was literally to "organize the world's information" - of course they would include newspapers in the index, irrespective of any opinion about the articles.
- AnthonyMouse 3y ago> How exactly does the existence of search take audiences away? Oh, that one's easy. Because the old media companies used to curate which stories people see, and now the search engines do it, but do it in a way that also shows competing sources. So then legacy media outlets lose a lot of traffic -- and political influence -- to random blogs and social media. Somewhat ominously, Google has mostly stopped showing the latter in search results. If you like conspiracy theories, this happened not long after those companies filed a lot of lawsuits and pushed for legislation against them, and once they did the number of lawsuits and proposed legislation declined.