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Search engine exclusivity is an insane idea and I think it will kill search engines if MS or whoever starts making deals with other big sites to block Google cr
by joegibbs 2y ago
Search engine exclusivity is an insane idea and I think it will kill search engines if MS or whoever starts making deals with other big sites to block Google crawling. Imagine ads saying "Bing the Wall Street Journal today!" because it's exclusively on Bing, or only being able to access tech blogs in DuckDuckGo.
- twelve40 2y agowho in their right mind would make an exclusive deal with Bing to miss out on 90% of the search market?
- joegibbs 2y agoIf I were Microsoft I’d be thinking of investing some of my deep pockets into guaranteeing, for some sites, the lost revenue from losing the search placements. If the news was saying “x many popular sites will no longer be available on anything but Bing”, that’s a lot more damaging to Google than the reverse is to Bing, because Google is the default for most people and it would shake confidence in them.
- stubish 2y agoIt isn't search engine exclusivity, so far as I see. I'm sure Reddit would welcome a big check from Microsoft or Apple, or even assurances the data will never be used for AI training. It also doesn't seem to be about search engines, but just a side effect. It seems to be about publishers licensing their content for AI training data. I expect to see more money sprayed around from all the players, to head off lawsuits like the New York Times one.