nerfyies t1_j9xuuaf wrote on February 25, 2023 at 10:05 AM

Reply to comment by vuxanov in Google making ‘terrible mistake’ in blocking Canadian news: Trudeau by Defiant_Race_7544

You are actually a bit wrong, I actually worked in this space on the technical side, google has a system called rich results, you basically provide Google with a schema that they use to show a summary on the search result. A rich result is for example adding the image of news article directly on the search page but other types of data like faq (some of those drop down questions you see in results are provided by websites) . This mostly benefits the news website as they get free clicks since google promotes this content an places it at the top for free.

vuxanov t1_j9xv4gt wrote on February 25, 2023 at 10:09 AM

If it’s such a great deal for newspapers why are they against it?

leopard_tights t1_j9xx5jz wrote on February 25, 2023 at 10:39 AM

Because they think they can "double dip".

vuxanov t1_j9xxoom wrote on February 25, 2023 at 10:47 AM

Or maybe it’s because google is actually stealing their traffic.

leopard_tights t1_j9xy5kl wrote on February 25, 2023 at 10:53 AM

If you search for something do you usually read the title of article linked in google and are satisfied with that? No, you click it.

vuxanov t1_j9xyb5g wrote on February 25, 2023 at 10:56 AM

Lol are you seriously saying this on Reddit? Nobody reads anything except titles.

leopard_tights t1_j9y0xma wrote on February 25, 2023 at 11:32 AM

I'm starting to understand why this is so complicated for you.

CatastrophicLeaker t1_j9xywvb wrote on February 25, 2023 at 11:04 AM

When you google youre looking for more info, Reddit is for passive scrolling