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Re:Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web by pmiller2 on Friday March 26, 2021 @03:59PM (#26596268)
Where's the money?
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Re:Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web by ClumsyPilot on Friday March 26, 2021 @10:44PM (#26599425)
That's like arguing that newspapers are not a market, because it makes money from ads.
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Re:Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web by pmiller2 on Friday March 26, 2021 @10:46PM (#26599439)
No, I was asking if web search was a market independent of ads.

BTW, newspapers also make money from subscriptions and sales of copies, so your analogy is doubly wrong.

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Re:Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web by throwaway_kufu on Saturday March 27, 2021 @12:08PM (#26603293)
In collecting and selling your data to 3rd parties.
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