It is like this is one big marketing push to get more Australians using DuckDuckGo.
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I don't think DuckDuckGo is going to start paying sites they include in their search results. I would expect them to take a stand against being forced to do that.
It's hard to understand news sites complaining about links to their articles based on their titles and descriptions.
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You raise a good point. I think the news sites are angry at their lack of market power because Google has 90+% market share and makes over 3 billion out of AU market. But you are correct DuckDuckGo is not going to pay, I don’t have any useful fixes for this
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They're blaming search engines for taking away money from them, but the search engines are directing users to their articles. If they didn't want to have snippets included in the results, they would disable it.
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They want to have snippets included though.
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Sites have control over how their content is used in search results:
developers.google.com/search/referen
If they don't want snippets of their articles used in search results, they can disable it. They can also set a maximum length on how much is used. Can set it for a specific crawler too.
Having snippets increases the chance of users choosing that result and visiting the article.
Google can be fairly criticized for a lot of things but I don't see how them directing traffic to news sites in their search results is hurting those companies or treating them unfairly.
Thanks for sharing this. Was aware of robots.txt but was unaware about x-robots-tag and snippets.
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You can also mark a section of the content with data-nosnippet to exclude only a portion of the content from being included in snippets. In general, it's usually in the best interest of the site to let search engines index all of it and include all of it as snippets in results.
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