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Google penalizes link-farms, and websites who copy content from others, but adopts a holier-than-thou attitude for itself. Not very surprising. There is no inhe
by pompino 3y ago
Google penalizes link-farms, and websites who copy content from others, but adopts a holier-than-thou attitude for itself. Not very surprising. There is no inherent "legitimacy" when Google (as the worlds largest spyware vendor) does it.
- kemayo 3y agoThat seems unrelated to the issue? I don't think those link-farms should have to pay to link to things either...
- pompino 3y agoYes, but those link-farms get de-ranked by Google (which is a good thing IMO). Google is pretending that their particular case of linking is legitimate and deserves fair-use protection.
- kemayo 3y agoI don't think Google is pretending. Its linking is legitimate. Also, it feels strange to draw an equivalence between Google downranking a spam website and the government charging to link to things.
- pompino 3y agoThere is no difference between content/link farms and what Google is doing - its copy/pasting someone else's words on a website and surrounding them with ads. _Neither_ are deserving of fair-use protections.
- kemayo 3y agoI don't think we're going to agree on this one.
- pompino 3y agoSure, I can respect that.
- philipkglass 3y agoGoogle News does not show ads.
- pompino 3y agohttps://news.googleblog.com/2009/02/ads-in-google-news-search-results.html https://news.googleblog.com/2009/02/ads-in-google-news-searc... https://support.google.com/googlenews/thread/2165411/how-do-i-block-ads-that-are-disguised-as-news-stories?hl=en https://support.google.com/googlenews/thread/2165411/how-do-...