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this one time Google is in the right
, and all search engines should stand behind this call.https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1352569788845928450 …
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Replying to @DoppelMark
Google is a publisher and it makes money off search results (and exercises its editorial control to not publish things that it does not wish to publish) - why shouldn't they pay for their content?
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through the same reciprocity it holds with all other websites.https://twitter.com/DoppelMark/status/1352824097764466688 …
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Replying to @DoppelMark
I disagree with the "indexing should be free" assertion. Indexing is valuable and curation are valuable - a healthy web has people paying for them and google degrading its free service (the user is the product, not free) is a step towards that.
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i touch upon that in the article - there are both free and paid services on the internet, living side-by-side. always been, in fact this is by design. we already have paid-for search indexes; usually specialized ones but also some general. don't break a good thing needlessly.
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Replying to @DoppelMark
Google is already broken enough that I want to see it broken more so it loses cultural hold / the position as a default.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
bad sentiment. once it's established for *one* company or service, it'll creep up for all others. Google will be ousted gradually; there's already competition growing. tho for actual viable change i expect a major technological shift will be necessary, one that out-does Google's
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If all free indexing gets destroyed I consider that a positive Free indexing is a bad equilibrium that's hard to break out of (people are emotionally reluctant to pay for things offered for free at good enough quality) If free indexing is seen as low quality / low status, great
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