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by jparse
3162 days ago
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Google cards are an example of anti-competitive behavior. They lift content from sites, often without their permission, and display that data on the site. With their 90 percent marketshare, this behavior kills websites. There have been numerous lawsuits on this. The end result, is you have a web with less choice and innovation.[1] The most outrageous thing is they take this content and display ads right next to it and profit off it. All without giving a dime to the website owners. Cards are one example, the best example is Google's plan to kill comparison shopping sites because it was eating into their marketshare. Washington Post put it best: > Quoting internal Google documents and emails, the report shows that the company created a list of rival comparison shopping sites that it would artificially lower in the general search results, even though tests showed that Google users “liked the quality of the [rival] sites” and gave negative feedback on the proposed changes. Google reworked its search algorithm at least four times, the documents show, and altered its established rating criteria before the proposed changes received “slightly positive” user feedback. Internal Google documents predicted that the proposed changes would reduce rivals’ user traffic up to 20 percent and subsequently reported producing the desired results once the changes were implemented.[2] [1] https://theoutline.com/post/1399/how-google-ate-celebritynet...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/you-should-be-outrag... The list goes on and on... |
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To be fair on this point, if the salient content is facts (for example, the expected weight of a healthy cocker spaniel), then the originating site didn't "own" the content anyway.
They certainly have copyright on the presentation of the facts, but that just obligates Google to run the original content through some sort of algorithm (or something) to make sure they're not violating copyright.