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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. Wikipedia by ObligatoryUserName · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The question, then, is how much will the growth of Wikipedia negativly effect Google? I know I've started doing Wikipedia searches for things I would have Googled for before.