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What he utterly ignores is that to the consumer, these intermediaries are often far more valuable than any individual business in the industry is. This is why
by Kalium 12y ago
What he utterly ignores is that to the consumer, these intermediaries are often far more valuable than any individual business in the industry is.
This is why I use Orbitz or Hipmunk to find flights, rather than going directly to United or Southwest.
- pessimizer 12y ago>these intermediaries are often far more valuable than any individual business in the industry is. Or they can be utter shit aggregators and middlemen, which they mostly are, and which Google spends most/all of its time on trying to defeat their SEO to get to better content. I'm pretty sure that Google understands his problem and would prefer that his site come up; what I'm not sure about is why you seem to think a problem exists if every time you search for a product, the first page is split between Best Buy, Amazon, and GetElectronicsFastAndCheap.com, and the manufacturer is relegated to the second page. I think that Google is aware of this and trying to solve it, I just think that it's a problem that isn't possible to solve algorithmically. It is quickly leading to the end of search engine usefulness as a facilitator of discovery rather than of confirmation.