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- Apr 17, 2022
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This moment has been anticipated since the inception of the web. A higher order search engine that uses the traditional search engine to aggregate results.
It took 30 years, but it is finally here. This was unavoidable.
1. People seeking quick answers would have bounced off your website as soon as they've got what they wanted. Those people would have not become paying customers or return-visitors anyways.
2. People that are interested in a topic and want to study it in depth, will end up searching for and spending a lot of time on authority websites. It's much more convenient to browse a website and bookmark pages, rather than doing quick search after search after search.
3. Google is not stupid.
They are fully aware of the fact that cannibalizing the content available on the web without giving any credit to the authors will remove the incentive to produce, which will gradually cause the degradation of the information freely available on the web.
Things will change, and the market will shift.
The strategy used by publishers that has worked fine for the last 10-20 years will need to be updated.
"With every door that closes a new one opens" - Alexander Graham Bell
Every technological shift over the past 5000 years has eventually resulted in more wealth for everybody. There is nothing to worry about.
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
It took 30 years, but it is finally here. This was unavoidable.
I do not share the same opinion. Here are a few reasons for it:Barring some exceptions, Internet publishers are F*cked.
1. People seeking quick answers would have bounced off your website as soon as they've got what they wanted. Those people would have not become paying customers or return-visitors anyways.
2. People that are interested in a topic and want to study it in depth, will end up searching for and spending a lot of time on authority websites. It's much more convenient to browse a website and bookmark pages, rather than doing quick search after search after search.
3. Google is not stupid.
They are fully aware of the fact that cannibalizing the content available on the web without giving any credit to the authors will remove the incentive to produce, which will gradually cause the degradation of the information freely available on the web.
Things will change, and the market will shift.
The strategy used by publishers that has worked fine for the last 10-20 years will need to be updated.
"With every door that closes a new one opens" - Alexander Graham Bell
Every technological shift over the past 5000 years has eventually resulted in more wealth for everybody. There is nothing to worry about.
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.