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You're not wrong in terms of the average user's intent (they mostly don't care about the source, they care about the content), but I see this as an ethical gray
by vunderba 3y ago
You're not wrong in terms of the average user's intent (they mostly don't care about the source, they care about the content), but I see this as an ethical gray area when search engines effectively offer up all this content created by bloggers without the need of the user to visit the site itself.
Phind tries to ameliorate this a bit by providing a set of links where the summarized data comes from, but most people likely won't even click on these links.
It's going to be rather demotivating when your site's traffic suddenly gets cut in half.
- ta1243 3y agoIf you talk to a collegue and say "what should I use to do X", and they say "use FooX", because they read it in a book last year, is that unethical? Most of the top results in search engines are terrible, mainly because of the SEO spam We'll eventually reach that with AI of course, but for now we haven't.