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by earthwalker99 842 days ago
Your analogy leaves out the fact that RSS doesn't work for serving ads, which is why all of this was in Google's interest.
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nordsieck 842 days ago
> Your analogy leaves out the fact that RSS doesn't work for serving ads, which is why all of this was in Google's interest.

I'm skeptical.

There were/are plenty of people who did title-only feeds because they wanted to serve ads.

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bamboozled 842 days ago
That’s different to Google serving ads
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nordsieck 842 days ago
> That’s different to Google serving ads

A title-only RSS feed means people have to go to their site to consume the content. Which, presumably, has google ads on it.

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glenstein 842 days ago
You could serve ads in RSS. Either has their own distinct items, or embedded in the content of the RSS feed. Although I suppose the point your making is that these forms of ads wouldn't be something that Google necessarily could control or monetize.
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