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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by georgeecollins on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:37PM (#23479822)
Google is selling ads against free content created in Wikipedia, and Wikipedia sees none of that. That isn't fair to Wikipedia and it would be catastrophic for many for-profit websites.
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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by reaperducer on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:47PM (#23479930)
Can't Wikipedia just change its terms of service or licensing if it thinks this is a problem?

You're either free for all, or not.

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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by georgeecollins on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:30PM (#23480460)
How would changing there terms of service prevent Google from doing this? If that worked, don't you think Yelp would do that?
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