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Quite right. Take away Google and everything like them and you've killed the technology that's killing the business, not the middleman strictly. As a thought
by DannoHung 18y ago
Quite right. Take away Google and everything like them and you've killed the technology that's killing the business, not the middleman strictly.
As a thought experiment: Imagine that Google was unnecessary. Every person had a device that found exactly the page on the internet that they were looking for without using any centralized service. It just went out and scanned the whole public web in a snap. Is there a middleman now? Nope. Is it still going to kill people that choose not to participate? Yes sir!
His second point is quite accurate though: A reduction in supply of highly redundant articles will behoove journals of record. Specialization and reduction of repetitive effort will see the day through.
- pj 18y agoyes, there is still a middle man, it is "a device that found exactly the page" The issue isn't google, it's newspapers. THey are big and bulky and kill trees and there are millions of them accessible by the web now making all of them less valuable. It has nothing to do with Google and nothing to do with a middle man. Besides, lazy people can't waste time at their desk reading the newspaper, but they can stare at news.google all day.