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Re:Google turned me into a serial killer by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:22AM (#27628346)
The even uglier aspect of this, I think, is that Google is trying to keep you on their site and discourage you from visiting the authoritative site. That is classic middleman (unwanted intermediary) behaviour. Google produces no content but they sure interested in everyone else's.
Re:Google turned me into a serial killer by gruez on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:15AM (#27631025)
> That is classic middleman (unwanted intermediary) behaviour.

Unwanted by whom? The reader? If you don't want google as an intermediary you can just... not use them. If you want to search but not have an intermediary, you can just run your own search engine and index. The publisher? Again, if a publisher doesn't want an search engine to be an intermediary then they can always get their site delisted. Turns out that most sites don't do that, or do and then quickly revert back, so clearly they want Google as an intermediary.