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by jonhohle 666 days ago
The concern is if you are developing for the web, how much time do you need to spend appeasing Google to show up in search results and be discoverable.

When I was at Amazon the majority of direct product traffic did not come internal search, it came from Google. In some areas they were competitors, Amazon was beholden to Google as the starting point for most customer’s browsing experience.