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by ehnto
2091 days ago
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The information comes from the websites. If the websites die, due to lack of traffic, the information suffers or disappears. I agree that users just want their information, but unless Google plans to start generating, fact checking and sourcing data and content itself, it would do it well to not burn it's bridges with the content creators. You picked a fairly good result page, but there are plenty of examples of unattributed scraped information being the first block users see. It's often scraped incorrectly too, and frankly I think Google are getting ahead of themselves as it can be wrong or unrelated data but stated as fact right there. They don't seem to realise they are taking on a role as information curator, not gatherer, with this type of work. Their scraping, machine sorting and tagging is good, but if you are trying to be a source of truth you need to be better than good. |
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Actually no, the widget for flights is Googles own service, it wouldn't disappear just because other sites disappear. They have already been sued for putting it on top though. Google gets sued quite a lot.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2502509/expedia--tripa...