Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click

Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by criddell on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:16PM (#20688688)

Presumably the site being scraped is getting some value from being included in Google's index. If they aren't, they can always opt out.

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by dmitriid on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:23PM (#20688764)

First you have to find a way to prove it’s your data which isn’t trivial.

Genius had to invent a watermarking system for texts: https://betanews.com/2019/06/17/google-genius-com-lyrics/

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by Dylan16807 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:36AM (#20693198)

You don't have to prove anything to opt out of indexing.

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by criddell on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:33PM (#20698532)

And in the lyrics case, it wouldn't have helped because Google wasn't scraping the lyrics. Google was paying a third party that copied the Genius site.

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by dmitriid on Thursday August 15, 2019 @02:37AM (#20703087)

So it’s a multilayered problem, and content owners are on the losing side.

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