> they are decreasing the probability that this user would come to by content (via Google, for example).
Google has been providing summaries of stuff and hijacking traffic for ages.
I kid you not, in the tourism sector this has been a HUGE issue, we have seen 50%+ decrease in views when they started doing it.
We paid gazzilions to write quality content for tourists about the most different places just so Google could put it on their homepage.
It's just depressing. I'm more and more convinced that the age of regulations and competition is gone, US does want to have unkillable monopolies in the tech sector and we are all peons.
Google has been providing summaries of stuff and hijacking traffic for ages.
I kid you not, in the tourism sector this has been a HUGE issue, we have seen 50%+ decrease in views when they started doing it.
We paid gazzilions to write quality content for tourists about the most different places just so Google could put it on their homepage.
It's just depressing. I'm more and more convinced that the age of regulations and competition is gone, US does want to have unkillable monopolies in the tech sector and we are all peons.