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Search Engines Leech Value from Web Sites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-doesn't-the-consumer-win dept.

bigenchilada writes "Jakob Nielsen, former Sun Distinguished Engineer and now usability guru, proposes "that search engines are sucking out too much of the Web's value, acting as leeches on companies that create the very source materials the search engines index." He says that the value provided by search engines may be tilting too much in favor of the search engines. The web sites that create content are now simply fodder for the search engines' revenue stream."

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  1. Re:more evolving and changing business models by Yahweh+Doesn't+Exist · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >Maybe, maybe, the music industry could learn something from this.

    yeah but if anyone's going to learn the lesson of not holding the world back for their own backwards ideas I'd hope it'd be the religious fundamentalists.

  2. Ah! A non-brit by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The BBC is a lot of things. Greatest? No.

    Mr Blobby. Google for it.

    The glorydays of the BBC are past, even then it was merely turning out some nice series but a horrible news service that was biased as hell and understrict control by the goverment. They had to admit several times that they withheld news or misrepresented the news according to the wishes of the goverment. And that is just the ones found out.

    Offtopic as hell but I hate people who glorify the BBC without actually ever having to live with it as the only news source.

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