Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also damaging to businesses

Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by malchow on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:52PM (#14160739)

A woman in her sixties Googling for "nordstrom" is a Nordstrom customer.

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by 8ytecoder on Thursday April 20, 2017 @06:09PM (#14161350)

Of course. That's why I said "keep" and not acquire. What I meant is Nordstrom would rather pay Google to not lose the customer to some other site because of the placement of ads on Google.

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by jacquesm on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:04PM (#14160887)

Sooner or later the new middleman will always start to behave like the old middleman. Before it was the yellow pages, now it's google.

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