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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by avocado4 on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:36PM (#20688165)
Consumers win in this scenario.
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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:57PM (#20688448)
We do, though the counterargument is that sites that currently publish content like that will have no incentive to keep doing it. If that proves true, presumably in long run you won't be able to get good answers to similar questions, which I suppose could force Google to create their own content, a sort of search-engine version of Netflix and Amazon's move into film-making.
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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:48PM (#20688336)
Do they really though? See my comments on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20688022

Essentially, if Google's data source isn't getting paid, the data source is not going to remain accurate, and hence, neither will Google.

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by Nasrudith on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:06PM (#20689163)
I don't see the relationship either way between payment and accuracy.

Paying people is no guarantee of accuracy in either direction. Heck paying people for it encourages putting any ole bullshit there to farm it.

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:31PM (#20689385)
Websites which have gone out of business cannot provide Google updated data.
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