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I wonder how long before/whether a major player will simply decides google et al freeloading off their hard-produced data and displaying it in search results ma
by msy 13y ago
I wonder how long before/whether a major player will simply decides google et al freeloading off their hard-produced data and displaying it in search results makes being listed a net loss and goes for a social-only model of traffic sourcing with a block-all robots.txt Between Google pulling out prices and reviews & Google News auto-generating summaries and snippets of on-the-ground reporters it feels like a matter of time. Maybe a halfway house would be starting to de-index hot news/exclusives for the first few hours.
- bergie 13y agoFor content sites this is indeed a problem, but for somebody actually selling or providing a service over the web this isn't too bad. After all it doesn't matter if the purchases come from your website or from Yandex Islands, as long as they come.
- vidarh 13y agoIt matters if the cost of sale is substantially different, and it matters if it affects customer loyalty.
- balabaster 13y agoI think many people forget that companies don't have a website for the sake of having a website. They have a website for the sake of increasing sales/revenues and profits. As long as it meets that business objective, companies usually don't care how that's achieved.
- qznc 13y agoIf Google provides the UI, you don't have to pay any graphics designer anymore for your service website. :)
- weinzierl 13y agoIn Germany the publishers realized that it's a net loss but instead of doing what you described they lobbied a law [1] ("Google tax") that will prevent search engines from showing snippets and thumbnails. The law has passed and will apply from August 1, 2013 onwards. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_publishers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_p...