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georgeecollins
on June 10, 2020
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Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google ...
Google is selling ads against free content created in Wikipedia, and Wikipedia sees none of that. That isn't fair to Wikipedia and it would be catastrophic for many for-profit websites.
reaperducer
on June 10, 2020
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Can't Wikipedia just change its terms of service or licensing if it thinks this is a problem?
You're either free for all, or not.
georgeecollins
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How would changing there terms of service prevent Google from doing this? If that worked, don't you think Yelp would do that?
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